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Key features Fiction knowledge organiser
from Touchstones
by Edco Ireland
FICTION KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER
Things I need to know A writer’s craft
Skills I will develop
Plot: the events that happen within the story. A writer’s purpose is the aim of a piece of writing. It could be to inform, explain, describe or entertain.
Crafting a piece of writing involves thinking about how you will show your reader something instead of just telling them.
Narrative perspective: the point of view from which the story is told. First-person perspective: when the story is told by one character in that character’s voice.
Third-person limited narrator:
a narrator who is telling the story from one character’s point of view, knowing the thoughts and feelings of just this one character.
Third-person omniscient narrator:
a narrator who has access to the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story. Setting: where all the action happens. It is the specific place, timeframe and world where the story happens. Character: the person who appears in the story. The craft of creating a character is called characterisation.
Create a setting by appealing to the five senses – sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste. Create a character by writing about their appearance, actions, feelings or other people’s opinions of them. Redraft a piece of writing at both word and sentence level by skimming and scanning the text, cutting, upgrading and using a dictionary or thesaurus. Edit a piece of writing by skimming and scanning with a focus on spelling and punctuation, using a dictionary or thesaurus and using a second pair of eyes to check. Reading texts to understand character, setting and story Writing in a variety of text types for different purposes and audiences Learning from model texts to improve my own writing skills Engaging in class group discussions actively Projects Write A Fractured Fairy Tale: Engaging in the writing process to craft my own short story Create A Podcast: Responding imaginatively to a novel by creating and recording a podcast©The Educational Company of Ireland
