Year 5 Back to School Autumn Planning Fables Literacy Lots of Planning

Lots of planning for the Autumn term.

Literacy.

Powerpoints, planning and handouts included. Plenty of a month’s work.

Sample planning:

Genre: Traditional stories, fables, myths, legends.
Focus Texts: Robin Hood (Legend), Hercules (Myth) and Pandora’s Box (Myth).

Objectives
Primary Framework 7. Understanding and interpreting texts
 Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
 Explore how writers use language for comic & dramatic effects
8. Engaging with and responding to texts
 Compare the usefulness of techniques such as visualisation, prediction and empathy in exploring the meaning of texts
11. Sentence structure and punctuation
 Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophe
Learning/Writing outcome for unit: Children can write a new version of a legend, identifying their audience and adapting their writing to suit this audience.
Children can reflect on their own performances.
Children can reflect critically on their own writing and edit and improve it.
NB Teacher Day on Monday, Mass on Thursday
LO: Whole Class Shared Learning
Guided and Independent Activities: Plenary:
Tu Identify features of a myth.
Introduce the new unit and look at the writing outcome displayed on the working wall – explain that we have three weeks to achieve this.
Allow children two minutes to TTYP and talk about the new unit – do they have any ideas about myth, legends or fables?
Introduce the LO for today.

Work through the PowerPoint on the features of a myth.
Activity One
Come back together and create a ‘post it’ note checklist for the working wall, to include:
A myth is about gods and goddesses
It is set in ancient times
It features danger/revenge
It includes use of magical powers
It uses powerful imagery
Characters are heroes
Explains a strange/important happening
It features strange, frightening creatures

Read the following version of ‘Pandora’s Box’ and compare & contrast:
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/story562-pandoras-box.html

Activity Two Activity One
Read through the myth of ‘Pandora’s Box’ Discuss the features – give children 10 minutes to highlight the features in pairs.
LA: Supported by IR

Activity Two
Provide several examples of myths for pairs. Children to highlight and annotate the features. Differentiate questioning after activity.

Push HA to say that Myths pass on cultural, religious or spiritual beliefs and traditions.

Look at the ten rainbow steps to writing a myth on PPT – discuss how this links to the story mountain.

Homework and spellings.