Teachers' notes
Primary lesson objectives
- write recounts based on subject, topic or personal experience
- to develop a journalistic style
- to select the appropriate style and form to suit a specific purpose and audience, drawing on knowledge of different non-fiction texts
- describe an object, person or setting in a way that includes relevant details and is accurate and evocative
- make telling use of descriptive detail
Primary curriculum links
Year 5 - Creating and shaping texts
Reflect independently and critically on their own writing and edit and improve it
Experiment with different narrative form and styles to write their own stories
Adapt non-narrative forms and styles to write fiction or factual texts, including poems
Year 6 - Creating and shaping texts
Use different narrative techniques to engage and entertain the reader
In non-narrative, establish, balance and maintain viewpoints
Glossary
Academy short name for the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciencies - the group that organises the Oscars
Box office money raised by people paying to go to see the film at the cinema
Cinematography how a film is photographed/filmed in terms of shots and angles etc used to tell the story
Na vi the blue people in Avatar
Nominated named by the members in The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who vote for the people they want to be in each category of the awards. Then they hold another vote to see who is going to win
Original new, not copied
Oscars the world's biggest film awards - the statues given to the winners are called Oscars
Score the music that runs through a whole film