LKS2 Stone Age Boy Writing Unit - 15 Outstanding Lessons

Immerse your students in the captivating world of the Stone Age with this comprehensive English unit based on the popular book, “Stone Age Boy.” Designed for Lower Key Stage 2 (Year 3/4), this resource provides 15 engaging lessons filled with planning, PowerPoints, and activities to enhance reading, writing, and comprehension skills.

What’s Included:
★ 15 Complete Lessons: Detailed lesson plans with clear objectives and activities to guide your teaching.
★ Interactive PowerPoints: Enhance engagement with visually appealing presentations for each lesson.
★ Ready-to-Use Resources: Worksheets, word banks, and image prompts to support student learning.
★ Diverse Writing Tasks: Students will explore various writing styles, including character descriptions, instructions, fact files, diary entries, and narrative writing with an alternative ending.
★ Skill-Building Focus: Develop key literacy skills like vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar (conjunctions, tenses), and text organization.
★ Reading Comprehension Support: Questions and activities throughout the unit promote deeper understanding and inference skills.

Lesson Objectives:
★ Understand character feelings and perspectives.
★ Describe settings and characters from the Stone Age.
★ Research and gather information about Stone Age activities.
★ Write clear instructions for a Stone Age task.
★ Express time and place using conjunctions.
★ Create a Stone Age animal fact file.
★ Contrast the present day with the Stone Age.
★ Use consistent past tense in writing.
★ Place story events in chronological order.
★ Write a diary entry from the perspective of the Stone Age Boy.
★ Further develop the diary entry.
★ Use a Thesaurus to expand vocabulary.
★ Plan an alternative ending to the story.
★ Write the problem section of the alternative ending.
★ Write the resolution of the alternative ending.

Try it for Free: Not sure yet? Download the first week’s worth of planning, PowerPoints, and resources to see how this unit can transform your literacy lessons! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12113655

Ideal for: KS2 English, Year 3, Year 4, reading, writing, fiction, novel study, Stone Age, history.

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