Hardly a Gripping TOPIC!!!

STRUCTURE-Organise texts, using a range of appropriate structures
INDICATORS-Organises and sequences ideas and information for a particular effect

Depending on how we 'skin the cat', we could easily turn the most mundane, everyday activity into a wonderful piece of writing. 

In the first piece of writing below, the writer has written deliciously sensory prose, which describes the removing of the skin from a avocado.It makes the reader believe that it is possibly the most desirable fruit imaginable. 

What are the features the writer has used for effect? Make these our success criteria?

  

Here is an example of a Year 8s attempt. (both of these were taken from Pg 58 from Gail Loane's book Something to Say

From both of these pieces of writing you could easily create a 'zero draft' (key words). Wouldn't they look an awful lot like an instruction?

Here's one some 'old students' in Room 14 did a couple of years back.

I especially LOVE the sentence that starts But oh...the agony arrives...3 great pieces of alliteration in the one sentence.  

What do you notice about the language of these examples?

NOW WRITE! Write a simple instruction (Zero Draft it-See link in red above). Include a technical word (or two) and then make it sounds scary, aggressive, gruesome...

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