We have begun looking at diary writing in our English lessons.
Make a list off all the features that I would expect to see in a high quality diary entry.
(There may be free-play points to be won!) 🙂
We have begun looking at diary writing in our English lessons.
Make a list off all the features that I would expect to see in a high quality diary entry.
(There may be free-play points to be won!) 🙂
There should be; informal vocabulary, posssibly slang or clichés, paragraphs, past tense, only including interesting facts, standard english, starting with dear diary (obviously) and the date/time.
And no ”yours sincerely”! 🙂
• fronted adverbials
•informal language or slang
•parenthesis
•the date at the top
•expanded noun phrases
•punctuation
•introduction like dear diary
I wasn’t in that particular lesson at the beginning when we did this so if I missed any out
let me know!
Informal language(cliches, slang, abbreviations).
Past tense/first person.
Start with ‘Dear Diary’.
Date and time at the top.
Standard English.
No boring things.
No ‘yours sincerely’.
Informal language
First person
Contractions
Time adverbials
Standard English
Cliches
Year 6 punctuation
Show don’t tell
Paragraphs
Interesting events
Chronological order
Past tense
First person
Date
Dear diary
You need to include:
.informal language [cliches,abbreviations, slang]
.main information about your day
.standard English
.don’t end with ‘yours sincerely’
.sign off at the end
. time and date at the begging
.start with ‘dear diary’
.past tense and first person
Success Criteria:
Informal language; first person; contractions; Year 6 punctuation; standard English.
.informal language
.first person
.contractions
.time adverbials
.cliches
.no yours sincerely