Writing to Entertain - Lesson 2 - Devices PowerPoint

The "Writing to Entertain - Lesson 2 - Devices PowerPoint" is a comprehensive guide for teachers, provided by Teacher-of-Primary.co.uk, to help Year 6 students explore various literary devices used in story writing. The lesson aims to delve into the art of crafting engaging stories by utilising a range of vocabulary, metaphors, similes, and structural elements like alliteration, rhetorical questions, dialogue, and personification. It emphasises the importance of an engaging opening and sentence variety to capture the reader's interest. Additionally, the lesson touches on the technique of building suspense to keep the reader hooked.

One of the critical aspects of the lesson is teaching students how to start a creative piece of writing effectively. The lesson suggests beginning a story 'in the middle of things', transporting the reader into the heart of the action to create immediate excitement and tension. Examples are provided to illustrate how starting with an adverb, using direct address to the reader, or opening with dialogue can effectively draw the reader in. The PowerPoint also encourages students to analyse the opening of H.G. Wells' "The Red Room" to identify and label the devices used by the writer. The plenary session concludes with questions about understanding the devices and punctuation marks used in writing, as well as discussing different ways to begin a story to ensure an engaging start.