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Every Monday after lunch, the Year 6/7 class is taking part in an in-depth series of GRAMMAR explorations. Last term we looked at the five categories of verbs and how excellent writers employ verbs from all of these different groupings of Action, Saying, Sensing, Relating, & Existing. To prove the point, we examined a piece of literature by Michael Morpurgo, the author of the very successful novel ‘War Horse’. We are choosing to model ourselves on experienced writers and through examining the skills they employ, make our own writing more polished.

This term we are investigating nouns and how, by using the seven categories of the noun group, we will be able to expand our writing to create something more exciting and descriptive. Here is an example of what we have worked on. Students were experimenting with analysing the seven categories of the Noun Group, from Pointer (e.g. these), Classifier (e.g. sponge), Describer (e.g. delicious), Intensifier (e.g. extremely),  Quantifier (few), Qualifier (e.g. extra information, ‘that sat so temptingly on the delicately patterned plate’), and the Noun itself (e.g. cakes)

instead of the flat example of : The cakes………..

We now have: These few, extremely delicious sponge cakes that sat so temptingly on the delicately patterned plate…..This is what recognised writers do. Our plan is to use these strategies throughout our creative writing, in imitation of excellent role models, to produce writing that evokes a very clear descriptive image in the minds of our readers.

Regards,

Mandy Thompson, Literacy Coach