I love the short film 'Father and Daughter' - it's beautiful and touching without saying a word. And the latter is why it lends itself so well to creative writing - use the music to create brilliant writers. The worksheet attached takes you through step-by-step to make thoughtful responses to the music and the video. It starts by you blocking the images and getting pupils just to listen, then using this as the basis for a story. There's also a handy peer/self assessment grid to guide ideas a little more closely to create considerate writers. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do - it's genuinely one of my favourite activities I do with a group.
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There's nothing better than providing your stars with the tools for self-sufficiency, and that's the aim of this set of resources.
The first worksheet is a series of extracts with no punctuation whatsoever, so pupils must add in and vary the punctuation they use. Higher level pupils should be considering colons, semi-colons and hyphens where possible. The second is aimed at varying punctuation for effect, moving from the basics to the complex - this allows all pupils to reach the level of the higher level pupils on the previous activity whilst reinforcing those punctuation types to the higher level pupils. The third is to do with spicing up vocabulary/imagery choices - pupils are given two extracts with boring vocabulary and asked to make it exciting - perhaps a good choice for after teaching about types of imagery and how to use exaggeration and structure for effect. Finally, pupils are given a text that is majorly over the top in terms of imagery and hyperbole, so they must edit it to see where language choices are appropriately made, and where they need deleting or replacing. And step-by-step, you've created the beginnings of young editors! I've left the examples fairly generic to appeal to all and to allow for maximum editing opportunities - do let me know if you think of other ways to use these with your editors-in-training! As it's a bundle this premium resource is available for a nominal cost on my TES homepage. Enjoy - and please contact before modifying :) Things like this are some of my favourite activities to do - it can be used to definitively show how good readers make good writers. The gist is simple: using the resource below, you ask pupils to try and create examples of a type of writing (the example I've provided is for comedy). They cannot look at the rest of the booklet before doing this. Then, ask them to read the examples and consider the stars and wishes - what works well, and what doesn't in the extract. They can annotate and highlight to their heart's contents being happy little critics. Finally, the same grid from the start reappears - having read what they have, what examples can they come out with now? Look at the examples side-by-side; get pupils to self and/or peer assess the changes and (hopefully!) improvements and explore why these are better choices. Fingers crossed, you come out with a classroom full of pupils whose second examples are better than their first, and thus show them that reading more made them better writers. It's also a useful way to introduce them to new reading materials and drag them from same-genre same-author monotony. The texts I've used - 'Demon Dentist', 'The Princess Diaries' and 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' are perhaps best suited to later KS2 or very early KS3, and of course the same thing can be done with other texts - these are just samples. As always, let me know how you get on, and please refer resources and new users to Literacy Stars - more stars means we shine brighter!
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