Planning Narratives
Plan narrative writing by considering how authors have developed characters and settings, drawing on techniques observed in texts read, heard, or performed
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When your child is about to write a story, do they think ahead about what their main character is like and where the story will take place before they start writing?
Plan narrative writing by considering how authors have developed characters and settings, drawing on techniques observed in texts read, heard, or performed
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- Identify specific authorial techniques for character development from a mentor text
- Plan a character using techniques such as showing through action borrowed from a studied author
- Analyse how an author builds setting and apply similar techniques in planning own narrative
“When your child is about to write a story, do they think ahead about what their main character is like and where the story will take place before they start writing?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- English
- Domain
- Writing Composition
- Age range
- Ages 10–11
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