Write a description of an old fashioned mechanical toy.

Write a description of an old fashioned mechanical toy.
This resource includes a paragraph plan and a worked example for illustration purposes.
Ask your students to follow the paragraph plan:

1. The introduction. Set a scene and describe where you found the old toy.
2. Describe the toy in detail and how you activated its clockwork mechanism.
3. Describe how certain parts of the clockwork toy move.
4. Remind the reader of the age of the toy.
5. Introduce some aspect of the description here that draws upon the emotions of the reader.
6. Refer to the cycle of its movement sequence and mention how it is now compared to how it must have been when it was new.
7. If there is a background to the toy describe it.
8. A general reflection on the toy as a whole.
9. A deeper reflection on how the children would have viewed the toy in their day.