Adventure Story Writing

Writing - composition

“Writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)”

The whole sheet builds one story about an imagined adventure last weekend.

Writing - composition

“Planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about”

Section 1 asks pupils to plan who, where and what before they write.

Writing - composition

“Writing down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary”

The planning table has a Key Words column for ideas and new vocabulary.

Writing - composition

“Encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence”

Section 2 tells pupils to write their story sentence by sentence.

Writing - composition

“Evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils”

The Top Tip asks pupils to share the story with a partner or the teacher and check it makes sense.

Writing - composition

“Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including verbs in the continuous form”

Section 2 gives past tense examples, including the continuous 'was playing', and the checklist asks pupils to check their verbs.

Writing - composition

“Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation [for example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly]”

The Check Your Work boxes cover capital letters, full stops and spelling.

Writing - composition

“Read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear.”

The Top Tip in Section 3 asks pupils to read their story out loud.