WS01 - Picture book
English, Year 7
- Written response with illustrations
Annotations
1. Complements the title with the salient image of a piano, establishing the multimodality of the text.
2. Chooses adjectives (“little”, “quick”) and verbs (“jump”, “climb”) to develop characterisation.
3. Draws an image of the girl peering through a hole, with her eye magnified, to support the written words “I lay on my stomach in front of the darkness”.
4. Uses a simile (“like a ninja”) to further build a sense of the character.
5. Structures a paragraph that links the action on the previous page to action that will occur in the coming pages.
6. Reflects the written text (“I secured my safari hat”) in the image.
7. Selects verbs that reflect the adventure the 2 characters experience in this part of the narrative (“gambolled”, “flying”).
8. Uses an effective metaphor (“empty desert of the house”).
9. Uses elements in the image (the colour blue and the snorkel the girl is wearing) to support the metaphor “the partygoer ocean of the hall”.
10. Uses short sentences to build suspense (“The cockroaches were waiting for us. They had heard us coming.”).
11. Uses a simile (“like a knight in shining armour”).
12. Chooses an onomatopoeic word and an exclamation mark to build atmosphere (“CRUNCH!”).
13. Brings the narrative to a neat conclusion.
14. Analyses language features used in the text and the effect they are intended to have on an audience.