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Planning the Perfect Ghost Story Journey

Boost your writing skills by planning for an engaging ghost story! Dive into sentence structure, composition, and spooky narrative development. Use planning formats like mind maps or bullet points to craft your chilling tale.

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Planning the Perfect Ghost Story Journey

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  1. Lesson 2Planning for a ghost storyWriting to: Imagine, Explore, Entertain Year 9

  2. Objective: • To plan for an effective and well plotted ghost story

  3. Starter:Boost your word power! Synonym: A word that means the same as another word. What alternative words can you find for Fear?

  4. Writing Criteria for your ghost story: 1. Sentence structure, punctuation and text organisation Vary your sentences for clarity, purpose and effect 2. Composition and effect Write imaginative, interesting and thoughtful texts 3. Spelling Ensure that your spelling of simple and polysyllabic words is usually accurate.

  5. Planning your ghost story

  6. Narrative Sequence of your ghost story: Introduction – setting and characters Development – How does the story develop? Crisis – What happens? Resolution or cliff hanger?

  7. Planning strategies • Mind map • Spider diagram • Bullet points YOU DECIDE ON THE PLANNING FORMAT THAT SUITS YOU.

  8. Topic Sentences A paragraph is a unit of writing that consists of one or more sentences focusing on a single idea or topic. A well-written paragraph often has the following structure: • Topic Sentence: This sentence outlines the main idea that will be presented in the paragraph. • Support Details or Examples: This is the part of the paragraph that presents details. • Conclusion Sentence: This sentence summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. It may also lead the reader to the topic of the next paragraph.

  9. Language devices we can use: • Use of senses: Touch, taste, sight, sound, smell • Use of adjectives and adverbs • Colours used to describe • Powerful verbs • Variety of sentence length • Alliteration and onomatopoeia • Imagery (simile; metaphor; personification)

  10. Think about your word choice Use a Thesaurus!

  11. FEEDBACK

  12. Homework: Write the opening paragraph of your ghost story, but no more!!

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