Latest Bald Worm 'Just A Minute...' 11+ Revision Podcast: Dialogue

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Year 6 - Redrafting Task

//L.O. To use a varied prose style when writing a short story//

You are going to redraft your 'Victorian carriage' story - and I want you to focus on making sure you have included at least one of the following:

* A fragment (1-2 word sentence)
* An impact sentence (3-4 word sentence)
* The listing comma
* The joining comma
* The bracketing comma
* Brackets
* A colon
* A semi-colon

If you manage to include all of the above then you are halfway to having an 'elegant' prose style.

Please annotate your 'finished' redraft with a gel pen, showing me where you have included each of the pieces of punctuation/sentence types listed above.

P.S. Don't forget to bring in on USB/send via email to baldworm@baldworm.co.uk/print out your homemade comprehension on Monday!

Due: Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Year Six (Thursday) Distinctive Dialogue

L.O. To use distinctive voices to develop characterisation in a dialogue

Distinctive voices can bring your characters to life!

Write a dialogue (3/4 of a side of A4) between a posh Lord and an uneducated servant - the master suspects the servant of theft.

Revise our work on distinctive voices at bald worm: http://www.baldworm.co.uk/skills/distinctive_voices.html

Feeling clever? Try to include a semi-colon somewhere in the dialogue.

Due: Friday.

Year 6 (Wednesday) Distinctive Dickensian Dialogue

L.O. To write a dialogue using distinctive dialogue

Imagine Mr Pickwick and Mr Jingles are travelling in a cab with a 'wery vude' cabman. Write a dialogue about their discussion - using distinctive speech for Mr Jingles and the cabman. Write 3/4 side of A4.

Learn more about distinctive voices here.

Learn more about our Dickens work and characterisation here.

Due: Thursday.