Woodland Wordcraft (Fiction)
Audience: KS2 Literacy
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Scavenger hunt leading to exploration of alliteration and collective
nouns
- Writing frame which focuses on the senses or time or serial vision
- "Creature Features" invertebrate poems
- Haiku landscape writing
- Composing a folk tale or myth from an observed green plant or fungus
- Listening to a fable and writing a fable about woodland animals
- In situ shared text and continuation of writing
- Observational writing with the use of mirrors, magnifiers or frames
- Story or poetry trail
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Extend their descriptive vocabulary
- Be able to organise their observations in note form into a succinct
poem or prose form
- Improve their imaginative ideas
- Gain an appreciation of the work of other writers, and be able to
continue in similar style
- Learn about the purposes and structure of certain text types
- Be able to sequence lines or extracts from a poem or story
- Draw inspiration from, and an empathy with the natural world
- Gain confidence in performing their work
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