Overview of Resources in the Super Speech Pack (9-11)
Overview
This pack includes 7 fully-planned lessons, focusing on speech punctuation and grammar.
Pupils learn techniques to improve their creative writing by achieving a balance of dialogue and
narrative. They are asked to rewrite parts of a traditional tale with an older audience in mind,
and with particular attention to improving dialogue passages. Pupils produce a film trailer and
write a sequel to the tale. At sentence level, they look at speech punctuation and grammar and
how to lift dull speech with adverbial clauses.
Lesson
Synopsis
Lesson resources
Interactives:
Lesson 1 –
Language and
audience
Lesson 2 –
‘Coming soon to
a screen near
you!’
Pupils are introduced to the unit through considering
who traditional tales are written for, noticing the way
language can be used differently for different age
audiences and to give the story quite a different feel.
Pupils narrate a film trailer for the Three Little Pigs.
They break down the story to give enough to grab
the audience, without giving the story away. They
write a voice over to tell the story, choosing
suspenseful language to “sell” the film as a story for
older children.
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Highlighter - Three Pigs Style Comparison
Printables:
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Three Pigs Style Comparison
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Speech and Narrative Example
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Speech and Narrative Blank
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Three Pigs Scenes
Interactives:
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Film Trailer - Three Little Pigs
Printables:
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Film Trailer Storyboarder - Three Pigs
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Three Pigs Scenes
Interactives:
Lesson 3 –
Punctuating
speech
Lesson 4 –
Direct and
reported speech
Lesson 5 –
Goodbye to
boring speech
Lesson 6 –
Hello to
dazzling
dialogue
Pupils learn different punctuation conventions of
writing speech using, as a basis, one of the events
where the pig outwits the wolf.
An optional grammar lesson where pupils learn
about the different conventions of direct and
reported speech. They go on to write a first person
report in the role of a main character, using reported
speech. Pairs of pupils then take the ‘hot seat’,
while the teacher questions them in role.
Pupils practise lifting ‘boring’ speech by using better
verbs, and adding adverbs and adverbial phrases
and clauses (time [when, while], place [over, past]
and manner).
Pupils build on the previous lesson by continuing to
practise lifting ‘boring’ speech by using better verbs,
and adding adverbs and adverbial phrases and
clauses (time [when, while], place [over, past] and
manner).
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Speech Punctuator - Three Little Pigs
Printables:
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Wolf Outwitted Text
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Wolf Outwitted Speech Punctuation
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Wolf Outwitted Speech Punctuation
(TEACHER)
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Wolf Outwitted – The Fair
Interactives:
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Direct and Reported Speech Exercise
Printables:
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Direct and Reported Speech
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Report - Wolf or Pig
Interactives:
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Highlighter – Three Pigs Dialogue Part 1
Printables:
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Dialogue Passage
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Three Pigs Dialogue
Interactives:
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Highlighter – Three Pigs Dialogue Part 2
Printables:
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Brilliant Dialogue
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Brilliant Dialogue support
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Adding to Speech
Overview of Resources in the Super Speech Pack (9-11)
Lesson 7 –
Balancing
narrative and
dialogue
In this lesson, pupils recognise that an over reliance
on either speech or narrative creates writing that is
difficult to understand or is simply boring. In
contrast, a successful balance can help transport
the reader into the scene and move the story along.
As a writing task, the pupils extend the story into a
sequel – a task that could extend into several more
creative writing lessons.
Interactives:
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Highlighter - Speech and Narrative Balance
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Quickwriter – Three Pigs Sequel
Printables:
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Speech and Narrative Balance
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Story Sequel Starter
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Bad Speech