How to Write a Diary Entry

In this video, Twinkl Teacher Miriam demonstrates the features of diary entries and shows you some of the many Twinkl diary entry resources found on the Twinkl website.

Howard Carter Diary Entry:

0:00 Introduction
0:20 Features of a diary entry
0:53 How to teach the features of a diary entry
1:37 KS2 Second World War Evacuee Diary Writing Resource Pack
2:00 KS2 Oops Dragon Diary Writing Resource Pack
2:26 Howard Carter Diary Entry
2:51 Keep a Diary for a Week Worksheets
3:00 Mary and Joseph's Journey to Bethlehem Diary Template

Hi it's Miriam from Twinkl here. If you're looking to teach diary writing, Twinkl has a large variety of diary templates activities and resource packs to guide you but first let's take a look at the features of a diary entry.

The features of diary writing include first person, past tense, paragraphs, observations, thoughts and feelings, date and introduction for each entry, chronological order, detail and description, emotive language and time conjunctions.

It's important children explore these features as a class before writing their final diary entry you could do this by giving children an example of a diary entry and asking them to find and highlight the features of a text or you could do a shared write session where the teacher and the whole class create a diary entry together. Children will be asked to create sentences using the features this is a great way for them to practice using the features within a sentence and you can address any misconceptions. we have a lot of diary entry resources over on the website for you to use. I'm going to show you just some that i love. This second world war evacuee diary writing resource pack is a great way to incorporate history into your literacy lessons. Together these resources can help children to create informative and engaging diary entries from the perspective of a second world war evacuee or take a look at this key stage 2 oops dragon diary writing resource pack. This resource uses stories about the colorful but catastrophically clumsy oops dragon who can't help but cause accidents and trouble everywhere he goes. The powerpoint asks students to write diary entries from the point of view of different characters affected by the accidents he's caused. This Howard Carter diary entry activity provides children with the opportunity to put themselves in the shoes of Howard Carter when he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. Children will be inspired to combine their diary writing skills and their historical knowledge as they imagine themselves back on the banks of the river Nile in november 1922. Get children to practice writing daily diary entries with this keeper diary for a week worksheets help key stage 2 pupils write creatively about their Christmas story with this Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem diary template so there you have it some fantastic diary entry resources you can use to inspire children to write. Until next time, bye for now!