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Day One

DNA:Bar Key:

Improve the sentence:Her hair was green.

You could turn it into a simile: Her hair was a green as the grass in summer.

All children will be able to recognise a simile.Most children will be able to recognise a metaphor..

Some children will be able to recognise varied sentence starters in the wagoll.

Character description wagoll

Share your improved sentence with someone in your house.

How would an artist view a character description?

Wagoll

Look at the character description in the next few slides what do you notice?

Think about the punctuation and literary devices you can spot. What person is it written in? What tense is it written in? Different sentence starters?

Fairy Character DescriptionAll of a sudden, out of the darkening gloom, she gradually appeared. What was she? I wondered. Never before had I seen such an amazing sight. She was stunning…no… breath-taking, with her

golden, rose-coloured dress sparkling like a thousand stars in a midnight sky. Surrounding her was an aura of light, almost like the Northern Lights but much softer and paler. Delicately, the lace edge of her gown swayed with the movement of her body, as she leapt from flower to flower. Each step she

took, as light as a feather and silent beyond belief. Her miniscule shoes landed precisely, they were no bigger than my little fingernail! Her thick lilac curls (and plaits) descended beautifully down her

slender back and danced to the rhythm of her gentle flight. The wings that carried her were as thin as tracing paper, transparent in colour but edged with the most exquisite, golden, sparkling spirals,

which winked at me continuously, as she fluttered in the breeze.

Her skin was the palest white, as light as an angel’s, and just as beautiful. Gently, she lifted her face to the sky and I caught a glimpse of her striking, shining, emerald eyes, perfectly almond-shaped and

surrounded by long, curling lashes. Her mouth was a tiny rosebud; a slight smile touched her lovely, luscious lips. How could anything be so beautiful? So perfect? This thing couldn’t be real.

I knew, without thinking, that she was the most stunning creature I had ever laid my eyes on! Each movement was deft and graceful as she went about her business, in the ever-darkening forest.

After an age of watching, a song filled my ears; a dreamy, delightful tune. She was singing! Gradually, I closed my eyes, as her heavenly voice filled my ears and filled my heart with joy. Every muscle in my

body ached to get closer to her, to touch her, to trace my fingers along her lacy wings- but it was impossible. I knew in my heart I must stay hidden and enjoy her beauty from afar. Opening my eyes,

sadly I knew the moment must end, as her steely gaze held mine. In the blink of an eye, like smoke on the wind-POOF! She was gone…

Features of a character description text. What should a character description text contain?

Character

Description

Interesting vocabulary from the wagoll

Features of a character

description

Extra challenge on next slide.

Extra Challenge:Complete this vocabulary square for one of your words in your frame of reference!

Can you write down as many exciting sentence

starters as you can.

Checklist

Description-adjectives

Great punctuation … () , . ! ? ; : ‘ –

Similes, metaphors, alliteration,

personification, onomatopoeia

Great vocab

Adverbials, drop-in, extended sentences,

short sentences, compound sentences.

1st person

Rhetorical questions

No speech

Great connectives

Different sentences starters- ly,

ed, ing,

Paragraphs

Feelings

Picture in the reader’s mind

Homophones

Don’t repeat- use synonyms/colours

Adverbs

Plenary

Yellow Hat- What did you like about the wagoll?

I liked that the writing included varied sentence starters. I liked that the writing included exciting adjectives.

I liked that the writing used the power of three.

Black Hat- How do you think the wagoll could be improved?

I think that the writer could have used more similes.I think the writer could have included more metaphors.

I think the writer could have used more exciting punctuation such as….

Day Two

DNA:Construction Key

Construct a sentence that starts with a fronted adverbial

All children will be able to use synonyms to describe their character.Most children will be able to use red hat thinking to help them create their

character .Some children will be able to use varied sentence starters.

Planning my Character description

Grammar Warm up

• Note: The following slide you can either print out or write out the answers/sentences in cursive handwriting

Answers

Magpie and Anchor words

Anchor Magpie

Can you think of what your anchor words

might be? For example if you’re writing about a

fairy add fairy to your anchor words.

Look at your interesting vocabulary from the

circle map and add this to your magpie words.

Copy out your magpie and anchor words

Your Task:

Today you are going to be planning your own character description. Red group use slide 19 and 20 to help you (After the tree map).

Your character can be a superhero, a fairy, a centaur- anything you like.

What is your characters nameand age ?

What does your character look like? (Appearance)

What do they like?

What are their hobbies?

What do they dislike?

What are his or hers characteristics?

Kind, Helpful?

What are their fears?

Do they have enemies ?

Character Description Plan

Example for appearance:

Her eyes were piercing blue like the ocean.

Example for appearance:

She was incredibly intelligent yet not boastful about her .

Green HatDraw and label your character

Plenary

Day 3

DNA:Question Key

My answer is character description.What is my question?

Example: What piece of writing includes adjectives.

All children will be able to use the power of three to describe their characters.Most children will be able to use similes and metaphors in their writing..

Some children will be able to use varied sentence starters.

Writing my character description

Answers

Follow these steps to write your character description.

Step1.

Write a title

Step 2.

Open with an attention grabbing sentence and write in third person. Do not reveal

your character’s name yet.

Step 3.

Talk about your character appearance. Use exciting literary devices such as

similes and fronted adverbials.

Step 4.

New paragraph. Talk about your character's likes and

hobbies.

Step 5. Write about your character’s dislikes.

Step 6. New paragraph. Write about your character’s

characteristics- is their story behind those characteristics e.g. Helpful because she had

to care for her little sister.

Step 7

Conclude with their name.

Use your checklist from day one to help you. Please find examples examples of each of these steps on the next slide.

Extra challenge- Can you include alliteration in your title and for your character’s name

Examples.

Step1.

The mystical mermaid

Step 2.

SPLASH is all I heard. I turned my head as quick as a flash but all I

managed to see was it’s long, blue tail gliding through the gentle

waves.

Step 3.

She had unbelievably beautiful eyes that glistened in the sunlight. Her hair was as black as the night

sky which contrasted her pale skin.

Step 4.

Love is an understatement to describe how she felt about the water. The water was her home and she adored it so much that

they were synonymous with each other.

Step 5. Write about your character’s dislikes.

Although she loved the water there was one part of it that she

didn’t like. The sharks. Their sharp teeth petrified her.

Step 6.

Helpful because she had to care for her little sister.

Step 7

Her name was shadow.

Your Task:

Success Criteria:All children will be able to use the power of three to describe their characters.Most children will be able to use similes and metaphors in their writing..Some children will be able to use varied sentence starters.

Look at your checklist from lesson 1.Create two personal targets that you want to achieve in your writing

Today you are going to be writing your own character description.Your character can be a superhero, a fairy, a centaur- anything you like.

The next slide has year ¾ spellings you can use!

Could you include some Y3 and 4 spellings as a

target?

Day Four

DNA TASK:

What if Key

What if there was no punctuation?

Writing my character description

All children will be able to use up level their work using exciting adjectives .Most children will be able to use similes and metaphors in their writing..

Some children will be able to use varied sentence starters.

Answers

Copy out the bubble map.

How many different synonyms can you think of for the word small? Frame of reference use those words in a sentence.

Your Task:

Success Criteria:All children will be able to use the power of three to describe their characters.Most children will be able to use similes and metaphors in their writing..Some children will be able to use varied sentence starters.

Look at your anchor and magpie words- have you included these (spelt correctly) in your work?

Today you are going continue writing your own character description.Your character can be a superhero, a fairy, a centaur- anything you like.

Extra challenge

• Publish your work onto a final piece of paper

• Add images and decoration to your final piece

• How do you feel about your writing?

Plenary

Give your work to an adult at home. They must use the success criteria to help you.

Adult assessment -

Yellow Hat-What went well?

Blue Hat- What could your partner improve on?

All children will be able to use up level their work using

exciting adjectives .Most children will be able to use similes and metaphors in

their writing..Some children will be able to use varied sentence starters.

Day Five

GPaS Lesson 5Outline:

Grammar tasks

Spelling tasks

Please print the slides or copy the answers/sentences into a notebook with neat, cursive handwriting

Answers

Answers

Answers

Spelling Task 1

Create a different wordsearchusing Y3 and 4 spellings. You can print out this slide or make your

own on paper

Spelling Task 2Use the words disappear,

fruit, forward and favourite in a sentence.

Brain break!