Dramatic Dialogue · Summer Term

Script Conventions

Learning the formal layout of playscripts and the function of stage directions.

Key Questions

  1. 1How do stage directions provide subtext that dialogue cannot?
  2. 2What are the structural differences between a novel and a playscript?
  3. 3How does the absence of a narrator change the way a story is told?

National Curriculum Attainment Targets

KS2: English - Writing CompositionKS2: English - Drama and Performance
Year: Year 6
Subject: English
Unit: Dramatic Dialogue
Period: Summer Term

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