1. Georgy Lends a Helping Hand
The Author’s Viewpoint
What does the term ‘author’s viewpoint’ mean?
Reading Activity
Adverbials
Your Task

2. The Author’s Viewpoint
When writing a story, the author creates a character from scratch, thinking carefully about their personality and behaviour. The vocabulary choices they use when writing about their character are very important in ensuring they develop a character’s mood, attitude, personality through speech, action and description. Adverbials are very important in developing the character’s mood throughout a story.

3. Georgy the Goat

4. Adverbials: when, where and how
At half past two, every day,
through the park
subject
The girl
verb
walked
Object
the dog.
When/where/how?
Tim/ manner/ place
daintily

5. Your Task
Once you have completed your story map, using highlighters or coloured pencils, go back through the whole text and identify adverbials which give us more information about the main character (Georgy). You may wish to colour code them (example) : Red – when Green- where Orange-how Whilst doing so, see if you can identify the author’s viewpoint on Georgy the Goat, magpie-ing the language features you highlight and jotting them down on post it notes. You can stick these around your story map.