WAGOLL diary model text - working Victorian child

A model text for Year 5/6 based on a mining accident for a Victorian child

It was used to support children in language generation and structural understanding alongside Street Child by Berlie Doherty.

This text includes examples of the following Year 6 objectives for writing:

Expected
in narratives, describe settings, characters and atmosphere
integrate dialogue in narratives to convey character and advance the action
use a range of devices to build cohesion (e.g. conjunctions, adverbials of time and place, pronouns, synonyms) within and across paragraphs

Greater Depth
write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, selecting the appropriate form and drawing independently on what they have read as models for their own writing (e.g. literary language, characterisation, structure)