WALT: Use sensory language and descriptive word choices to create effective sentences.
To begin the lesson, pupils listened to an audio stimulus and imagined themselves travelling across the Antarctic as explorers. They discussed what they might see, hear, feel, smell, and experience, sharing ideas to activate sensory vocabulary.
As a class, we then generated example sentences using the five senses to model effective descriptive writing.
Next, we read a WAGOLL inspired by Pie Corbett’s “If I Had Wings” to explore high quality figurative language and structure. Afterwards, pupils dramatised selected lines, helping them internalise the rhythm, imagery, and meaning of the poem.
Following this, children took part in a Word Waiter activity. In pairs, they were given colour coded word cards:
- Green – verbs
- Orange – adverbs
- Purple – where? (place phrases)
- Yellow – extra detail
