OVERVIEW

Prepositions

Noun Phrases

Adverbials

Relative clauses

Subordination

Final Piece

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As a response to the clear need in our students’ work for a shift away from narrative-dominant action sequences towards creative writing that evokes a mood and atmosphere, this learning sequence was developed.  Outline: This lesson sequence approaches narrative writing with a specific focus on sentence-level grammatical structures, namely: prepositional phrases, adverbials, relative clauses and […]

As a response to the clear need in our students’ work for a shift away from narrative-dominant action sequences towards creative writing that evokes a mood and atmosphere, this learning sequence was developed. 

Outline:

This lesson sequence approaches narrative writing with a specific focus on sentence-level grammatical structures, namely: prepositional phrases, adverbials, relative clauses and subordinate clauses. Each lesson tackles one grammar point and plays with it. A writer’s model is often explored and the students experiment with their own use of the day’s grammatical structure to develop their own writing.

The context for the whole lesson sequence is the writing of an opening to a dystopian novel. Images are used extensively to support the notion of developing a ‘mood’ and the students critically reflect on their own and each others’ writing consistently throughout the programme.

To follow is the full programme: The outline, individual lesson plans, classroom resources and data presentations are all downloadable and we invite you to do so, and hope you enjoy this grammatical journey into the dystopian future as much as we did with our students at the London Nautical School.

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Learning Sequence:

Outline, pedagogy and description
4 Week plan and individual plans
Data presentations
Sample work
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Presentation

The following 30 minute presentation gives a good overview of the Grammar For Writing pedagogy as applied to three different types of writing: This dystopia approach, the writing of satire and persuasive writing.