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Diary writing KS2 – Full week of work with PowerPoints
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This fully resourced diary writing KS2 download contains a week’s worth of English activities. There are four lessons with full planning, a Powerpoint presentation for each day and a daily starter.
The resource was created for Year 4 but is easily adjustable for Years 5 and 6. This resource contains:
Learning objectives
- PowerPoints for each lesson
- Diary entry check list
- Diary examples
- Teacher notes
Children will look at diary entries and identify key features. They will write first-person entries of their own, relating to your current history topic.
- Identify the key features of a diary entry
- Discuss writing similar to what you’re planning to write, in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
- Draft and write in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot with consideration for the audience and purpose
- Write a diary entry or series of entries from the perspective of a fictional character, including key features
Diary entry examples KS2
This free resource pack contains the following diary writing KS2 extracts:
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4
- The diary of a British mother, written during WWII
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
- The diary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1912)
Features of a diary KS2
- Introduction to set the scene
- Personal pronouns
- All the important events
- Personal opinion and feelings
- Cohesive paragraphs
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Diary writing
These English diary writing resources form part of our text types library and will support your key stage 1 and key stage 2 children to write factual and fictional diary entries.
Use our worksheets to explore the key features of a diary, find diary entry examples and diary templates and look at diary entries from fictional characters or famous people.
You might also find our Writing for different genres teaching pack helpful. It features a KS2 diary writing lesson plan based on a comic strip, writing prompts and a template.
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Analysing the features of a diary entry
I can identify and analyse the layout and linguistic features of a diary entry.
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Key learning points.
- The purpose of a diary entry is to recount important experiences and express feelings.
- A diary entry follows a specific structure, it is written in the first person and it uses informal language.
- Simple past and progressive past tenses recount what the writer experienced and felt.
- Fronted adverbials of time support in sequencing events in a recount chronologically.
- Present tense is used towards the end of a diary entry to show how the writer is feeling now.
Common misconception
Children may find it difficult to identify informal language.
Spend some time examining different ways informal language appears in the model diary entry (e.g. exaggeration, contractions, capitalised words, informal vocabulary).
Purpose - the aim of the text
Recount - a piece of writing that recalls an event or experience
Layout - the way a text is structured
Linguistic features - a structure of language that uses words
You will need a copy of the 2018 Penguin Random House UK edition of ‘The Firework Maker's Daughter' by Philip Pullman for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
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This homework sheet asks pupils to keep a diary entry over the weekend. It includes differentiated success criteria for their diary entries along with examples of the features you expect to see in their writing. It also includes a short example of a diary entry to demonstrate how the success criteria could be used to write a good diary entry.
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Diary Writing Full Week of Work KS2
Subject: English
Age range: 7-11
Resource type: Unit of work
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A weeks English, based on diary writing. Four lessons with full planning, a Powerpoint presentation for each day and a daily starter (x3).
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