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Step 1: Plan for Success Step 2: Sizzling Starts Step 3: Tightening Tension Step 4: Dynamic Dialogue Step 5: Show, Don’t Tell Step 6: Ban the Boring Step 7: Exciting Endings/Ending with Impact

Sizzling starts was the step students had previously been learning in the lessons prior to the focus lesson. Tightening tension was the focus point for the lesson as in students seemed to be really struggling with building tension.

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practical and engaging  Promotes student motivation and love for writing. Breaks the writing down  When students write narratives in year 5 they now have the skills of the English language to write much more engaging stories compared to lower years. -  vocabulary, use adjectives, verbs and nouns in  stronger. Focuse  on narrative writing techniques such as using paragraphs, dialogue and figurative language.

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Many students have leant the idea that a narrative includes a introduction- who, what, when, where, and why, then a problem and a resolution.  Ultimately, there writing is very basic lacking excitement and boring for them to write as well.  Backfill, is a challenge for students, this is the step after your sizzling start Some students can’t understand starting a story without letting the reader know who the character is or where the setting is straight away . Additionally, can struggle to start to add the backfill or go back in time to add how they character got into this situation.

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Using movies with scenes that start with the action immediately. Use the pebble, rock, boulder visual representation. Breaking movie scenes or narratives. Model what a good one looks like. Using the gradual release- I do, we do, you do.  Using real life stories sharing student experiences to make it connect to students lives and make it relevant to them. -analysis past  student samples. Get students to improve basic or average narratives/passages.

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Build up of Tension. Suspense Action Problem/obstacle/challenge Resolution/solution Dialogue Onomatopoeia  Pebble, rock, boulder Narrative

character Setting Reader engagement/attention Climax Plot Scene Backfill senses

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What do you think was the pebble/rock/boulder in this story/scene. How could you add more tension to this scene? Does this piece of writing include a pebble, rock, boulder or not? Could you think of the pebble/rock/boulder to add to this scene/passage? How could you use the 5 senses in this passage? Can you identify how the author used the 5 senses in this passage? How did the author create a sizzling start? What writing techniques have they used? How did the character overcome the problems? What was the resolution?

Questions to ask.
What do you think was the pebble/rock/boulder in this story/scene.
How could you add more tension to this scene?
Does this piece of writing include a pebble, rock, boulder or not?
Could you think of the pebble/rock/boulder to add to this scene/passage?
How could you use the 5 senses in this passage?
Can you identify how the author used the 5 senses in this passage?
How did the author create a sizzling start? What writing techniques have
they used ?
How did the character overcome the problems? What was the resolution?

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What makes a sizzling start? Dialogue, straight to the action, 5 senses, onomatopoeias, adjectives, verbs and figurative language.  What step is after a sizzling start? The backfill. What step is after the backfill? We have to have a problem and a solution. What is a climax?  The biggest problem in the story. What made a sizzling start in the movie scene? The start of the scene had action with two big raptors hunting for the two kids. What made the tension in the movie scene? Kids scared and were hiding from the raptors. The dinosaurs chased the kids. The kid fell over and the raptor nearly caught him.

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Finish the gradual release for tightening tension and  allow the ‘we do’ and ‘you do’ parts to be done multiples times with different scenes or passages that students can improve or analysis. Then allow them the chance to do using their own ideas. Complete the remainder steps 4-7 of writing for success and allow students more ’I do, we do, you do’ opportunities particularly when putting all the steps together and writing whole narratives.  Having a lesson on figurative languages showing examples of simile, metaphors, personification and idioms. Get students to practise writing sentences with figurative language.   A lesson on dynamic dialogue to ensure students understand how to use dialogue with correct grammar, and identify which character is talking and do that while also giving detail.  Model what a good examples looks like using past student or current students work. Get students to start putting steps together using sizzling starts, adding backfill, then tightening tension and and exciting ending.  Refer to the 7 steps to writing link below to access information on the full 7 steps and resources.  https://www.sevenstepswriting.com/

7 steps to writing success. 

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 Finish the gradual release for tightening tension and  allow the ‘we do’ and ‘you do’ parts to be done multiples times with different scenes or passages that students can improve or analysis. Then allow them the chance to do using their own ideas. Complete the remainder steps 4-7 of writing for success and allow students more ’I do, we do, you do’ opportunities particularly when putting all the steps together and writing whole narratives.  Having a lesson on figurative languages showing examples of simile, metaphors, personification and idioms. Get students to practise writing sentences with figurative language.   A lesson on dynamic dialogue to ensure students understand how to use dialogue with correct grammar, and identify which character is talking and do that while also giving detail.  Model what a good examples looks like using past student or current students work. Get students to start putting steps together using sizzling starts, adding backfill, then tightening tension and and exciting ending.  Refer to the 7 steps to writing link below to access information on the full 7 steps and resources.  https://www.sevenstepswriting.com/

7 steps to writing success.

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