Paragraphing and text organisation

Lesson aim: To structure our writing effectively (AO4ii)

Vocab starter

• Which atmosphere do you think the vocab below matches. Put each word into the box of the mood it would create.

1.Spooky 2.Calm 3.Busy 4. Depressing

DarkLonelyOminousSerenePeacefulFrantic

WhisperColdThreateningViolentGentleNoisy

EerieHecticJostleCrowdedEmptyMournful

ScreamTrafficGreyMidnightBustling

Key Skills

• AO4i: Create an imaginative piece of writing using a range of different techniques.

• AO4ii: Structure your writing effectively.• AO4 iii: Use a range of sentence structures

which are correctly punctuated.

These are what the CAT is marked on!

Paragraphing

TiPToPTime: A change in time needs a new paragraph Place: A change in

place needs a new paragraph

Topic: A change in topic requires a new paragraph

Person: A change in the person speaking requires a new paragraph

A good way to start a new paragraph is with a connective.

Time

Place

Topic

Global Warming causes heat wave

Organising your paragraphs

• On the sheet there are a range of different ways to build paragraphs for different purposes.

• See if you can match the explanation to the example

When I pulled the trigger I did not hear the bang or feel the kick – one never does when a shot goes home – but I heard the devilish roar of glee that went up from the crowd. In that instant, in too short a time, one would have thought, even for the bullet to get there, a mysterious, terrible change had come over the elephant. He neither stirred nor fell, but every line of his body had altered. He looked suddenly stricken, shrunken, immensely old, as though the frightful impact of the bullet had paralysed him without knocking him down. At last, after what seemed a long time – it might have been five seconds, I dare say – he sagged flabbily to his knees. His mouth slobbered. I fired again into the same spot. At the second shot he did not collapse but climbed with desperate slowness to his feet and stood weakly upright, with legs sagging and head drooping. I fired a third time. That was the shot that did for him. You could see the agony of it jolt his whole body and knock the last remnant of strength from his legs. But in falling he seemed for a moment to rise, for as his hind legs collapsed beneath him he seemed to tower upward like a huge rock toppling, his trunk reaching skyward like a tree. He trumpeted, for the first and only time. And then down he came, his belly towards me, with a crash that seemed to shake the ground even where I lay.

Question: How does the writer build up the paragraph to create tension and interest in the reader?

Write a passage where you structure your paragraph to build tension