WALT: Use words in a text to create images in your mind.
A Visualising: Draw what you see when you read these sentences.
Eddie was an ordinary 10-year-old boy. He lived on an ordinary street, in an ordinary red- brick semi with his ordinary family. He had ordinary chestnut brown hair that was cut in an ordinary style. He wore ordinary clothes, attended an ordinary school …
The dense forest was one of the largest in the world and there was always a plentiful supply of bugs and creepy crawlies to be found there, which Eddie liked to use to spice up his sister Lainey’s food.
‘His mother was a Rottweiler and his father was a Peruvian Hairless,’ is what Eddie would say when other dog walkers stopped to ask him about the breed of his unusual-looking ‘dog’.