This resource pack contains a WAGOLL diary text based on Journey by Aaron Becker, a beautiful wordless picture book.
The model diary entry is written from the point of view of the young female protagonist of the book.
Alongside the Journey diary WAGOLL is a feature find worksheet, where pupils are tasked to identify the following features from the exemplar text:
Language features:
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
• Rule of three
• Repetition for effect
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Rhetorical questions
Grammatical features:
• Mainly past tense
• Present tense (at the end of the diary)
• Future tense (at the end of the diary)
• Present perfect tense
• Past progressive tense
• Passive voice
• First person
• Fronted adverbials followed by a comma
• Variety of nouns to avoid repetition
• Expanded noun phrases
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Subordinating conjunctions
• Relative pronouns
Punctuation features:
• Apostrophes for contraction
• Apostrophes for possession
• Dashes
• Colons
• Semi-colons
• Hyphens
• Brackets
The feature find worksheets come with answers to make marking a breeze!
After examining the text, pupils can write their own diary entries based on the story. Diaries can be written from the point of view of the girl (as in the WAGOLL), or from the point of view of another character in the book (e.g. the girl’s sister, a guard or the king).
All resources are provided as PDFs and as easily editable Word documents.
“I love this resource, particularly the WAGOLL.”
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