Planning the opening of 'The Iron Man' | Starter Quiz | Oak National Academy

Put the sections of a narrative in chronological order.

• build-up

• opening

• resolution

• climax

Answer explanation

Each section of narrative writing has a different purpose. The opening introduces the protagonist and the setting and it starts to convey the atmosphere of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.6

What does a full sentence need to include?

• a full stop (or other closing punctuation)

• a capital letter

• a conjunction

• a comma

• a verb

Answer explanation

A complete sentence must start with a capital letter, most often ends with a full stop and must contain a verb.

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.2.4

Match each word class to its example.

• adjective

• cliff

• adverb

• deep

• verb

• gazed

• noun

• slowly

Answer explanation

Ambitious vocabulary helps to paint vivid pictures for our reader in descriptive writing.

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.2.3F

CCSS.RF.2.4

What linguistic device is 'Carefully,' an example of?

• a fronted adverbial of manner

• a subordinate clause

• a main clause

• a co-ordinating conjunction

Answer explanation

There are different types of fronted adverbial and they all serve a different purpose. 'Carefully,' is a fronted adverbial of manner and it tells the reader how an action is taking place.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What is a plan?

• a type of narrative

• a framework that writers create before they write a section or whole text

• a full piece of finished writing

Answer explanation

Even very experienced writers create a plan first.

Put these events from the opening of 'The Iron Man' in the correct order.

• The Iron Man stood on the very edge of a cliff in the middle of the night.

• The Iron Man gradually reassembled his body.

• The Iron Man’s body broke apart and his parts were “scattered” all around.

• The Iron Man fell off the cliff and “crashed” onto the the beach below.

• The Iron Man walked deep into the ocean until he disappeared under the surface.

Answer explanation

It is important to retell a story in the correct order.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9