This week, the children in Year 5 have worked hard to write a narrative extract based on Oranges in No Man’s Land.
Last week, the children began by looking at an example narrative extract, evaluating the layout, language and composition. The children identified language features such as relative clauses, fronted adverbials, subordinate clauses and speech. These features then became the focus of their sentence stackers.
The narrative extract was based on our English book this half-term, Oranges in No Man’s Land. The narrative extract focused specifically on the point in the story where the main character, Ayesha, has decided she must save her Granny by risking her life to retrieve Granny’s medicine during the civil war in Lebanon.
Across this week, the children have worked carefully to compose their narrative extract, either by incorporating or editing their sentence stackers and building upon their initial ideas. The children were incredibly resilient, engaged and focused and have produced fantastic pieces of work!
