Stories from Space: Descriptive Writing
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This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
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These Stories from Space Descriptive Writing Lesson Plans will take your class on an out-of-this-world journey to visit and explore imaginary planets!
Over six Descriptive Writing Lessons, your Year 5 children will learn how to identify and use some effective features of descriptive writing, including precise vocabulary, vivid sensory details and figurative language, all through space-themed activities. They then apply this knowledge to their own writing, where they are challenged to describe an imaginary planet and its landscape. These Stories from Space Descriptive Writing Lesson Plans have everything you need to develop your Year 5 class's descriptive writing skills - there are detailed lesson plans, engaging and informative slide shows for the teaching input, and a range of differentiated worksheets and activity ideas to suit most abilities and learning styles.
You may also like our Space Topic Bundle with four ready-to-teach Space-themed schemes of work for Science, Art, History and English.
Lesson 1
Features of Descriptive Writing
In this first Features of Descriptive Writing KS2 lesson, your Year 5 class will identify some of the features that make descriptions effective.
They will analyse space-themed example texts and discuss the use of precise language, vivid sensory details and figurative language, and the effect this has on the reader's ability to picture the scene in their mind.
They will analyse space-themed example texts and discuss the use of precise language, vivid sensory details and figurative language, and the effect this has on the reader's ability to picture the scene in their mind.
What's included:
- Slides
- Five Minute Challenge Sheet
- Spaceship Control Room Sheet
- Worksheet 1A/1B/1C
- Descriptive Features Hunt Sheet
Lesson 2
Precise Vocabulary
Your Year 5 class will learn about the importance of using effective vocabulary in this descriptive writing lesson, and how careful synonym choice can help to create vivid pictures for the reader.
They will be encouraged to use thesauruses and dictionaries to discuss, choose and use the most precise and effective vocabulary for different space-themed sentences.
Including a detailed plan, an engaging slide show and a range of differentiated worksheets and activity ideas, this Descriptive Writing Lesson Plan has everything you need for an out-of-this-world English session!
What's included:
- Slides
- Describe the Scene Sheet
- Worksheet 2A/2B/2C
- Synonym Sets
- Synonym Continuum Sheet
Lesson 3
Vivid Sensory Details
In this Stories from Space KS2 Descriptive Writing Lesson, children will explore how the inclusion of vivid sensory details, and the words chosen to describe them, can affect the mood or atmosphere created within a piece of writing.
Your Year 5 children will then be challenged to apply what they have learned when writing or improving a description designed to evoke a particular mood or atmosphere.
This Vivid Sensory Details Lesson Pack contains everything you need - a detailed plan, a set of engaging and informative slides for the teaching input, and a selection of differentiated worksheets and activity ideas!
What's included:
- Slides
- Opposing Descriptions Sheet
- Mood Cards
- Otherworldly' Scene Cards
- Vivid Sensory Details Checklist
- Description Sheet
- Dull Description Challenge Sheet
Lesson 4
Figurative Language
Use this Figurative Language KS2 English lesson to teach your class how to write effective space-themed descriptions.
Your Year 5 class will focus on exploring the effect of four different types of figurative language: similes, hyperbole, personification and onomatopoeia, before being challenged to create some examples of their own using space scenes as inspiration!
A detailed lesson plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, and differentiated worksheets are included within this Figurative Language KS2 English lesson pack.
What's included:
- Slides
- Space Scenes Cards
- Figurative Language Help Sheet
- Worksheet 4A
- Figure it Out! Game Cards
Lesson 5
Developing Ideas
In this penultimate Stories from Space KS2 Descriptive Writing lesson, your children will begin to develop ideas for a space-themed description, using what they have learnt in previous lessons.
Your Year 5 class will be challenged to make notes for log entries that are to be sent back to Earth which describe a new planet and its landscape in detail. A range of different Planets and Landscapes Picture Cards are included within the lesson pack to help children develop their ideas, as well as a detailed lesson plan and set of slides for the teaching input.
What's included:
- Slides
- Planets Picture Cards
- Landscapes Picture Cards
- Log Entries Ideas Sheet A/B
Lesson 6
Describing a New Planet
Use this Writing a Description KS2 lesson to give your Year 5 class the chance to demonstrate everything they have learnt to create an out-of-this-world description in the form of log entries to Earth!
They are challenged to include precise vocabulary, vivid sensory details and figurative language when describing their planet and its landscape.
This final Stories from Space KS2 English lesson pack includes a detailed plan and an engaging slide show presentation, as well as differentiated worksheets and activity ideas.
What's included:
- Slides
- Log Entries Sheet (lined and unlined)
- Checklist A/B/C
- Transmission Script A/B
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