Step 3.
Explore:
Revise the describe words learnt in Activity 1.
Remember what the words mean.
Make this sentence more interesting by adding describing words.
The cat and the dog played at the park.
How did you go?
Example: The cowardly cat and the grumpy dog played gleefully in the open spaced park filled with tall trees.
Remember what the words mean.
Make this sentence more interesting by adding describing words.
The cat and the dog played at the park.
How did you go?
Example: The cowardly cat and the grumpy dog played gleefully in the open spaced park filled with tall trees.
Skills Building
Your audience is who you want to be reading your story. The way you write your story can change depending on who you want to read it. For example, look at how these sentences change based on the audience.
Horror:
The boy sat on the grass looking at his sheep.
The exhausted boy sat on the radiated earth, watching over his starving bone thinned sheep. He thought to himself about how beautiful the world was before the tyrannical wolf overlords had claimed ownership over this now barren lands.
Magical and Cute
The pretty girl frolicked across the field of blossoming rainbow coloured flowers. Her cute and cuddly sheep followed her. But in the distance she saw the silhouette of the evil wolf stepmother, she knew that this meant that she have to transform into her magical sailor superhero form.
Adventure
The boy sat on the dusty plains of the Nexus field, in the distance he could hear a rumbling noise. He placed his ear to the ground and felt the vibration. He recognise that noise. It was the noise of a thousand sheep stampeding. He looked at the dust cloud that was forming from the earth moved by their feet, and in the distance he saw the W0-LF, or the wolf, as the villagers called it. He knew that he must warn the villagers - the enemy had arrived.
From these three examples, three different stories are being told for difference audiences. Which one did you like the most.
Have a go at rewriting this sentence, into three different styles. If you need ideas, rewriting once in a style that you would like, once in a style that your family might like, and once in the style that your best friend might like.
Horror:
The boy sat on the grass looking at his sheep.
The exhausted boy sat on the radiated earth, watching over his starving bone thinned sheep. He thought to himself about how beautiful the world was before the tyrannical wolf overlords had claimed ownership over this now barren lands.
Magical and Cute
The pretty girl frolicked across the field of blossoming rainbow coloured flowers. Her cute and cuddly sheep followed her. But in the distance she saw the silhouette of the evil wolf stepmother, she knew that this meant that she have to transform into her magical sailor superhero form.
Adventure
The boy sat on the dusty plains of the Nexus field, in the distance he could hear a rumbling noise. He placed his ear to the ground and felt the vibration. He recognise that noise. It was the noise of a thousand sheep stampeding. He looked at the dust cloud that was forming from the earth moved by their feet, and in the distance he saw the W0-LF, or the wolf, as the villagers called it. He knew that he must warn the villagers - the enemy had arrived.
From these three examples, three different stories are being told for difference audiences. Which one did you like the most.
Have a go at rewriting this sentence, into three different styles. If you need ideas, rewriting once in a style that you would like, once in a style that your family might like, and once in the style that your best friend might like.
Ready for the next step on your road to becoming an amazing writer?