year 6 Literacy Fiction Genre To plan, draft, write and improve an engaging short story

4 main weeks’s work.

Plus powerpoints and resorces.

Great for year 6.

Sample planning.

Learning/Writing outcome: To plan, draft, write and improve an engaging short story in a particular genre using appropriate language and organisational features.

Introduce the words ‘fiction’ and ‘genre’. TTYP and discuss the meaning of the word ‘genre’. At this point, introduce the new and improved writing journals where children can make notes during lessons, can jot down words they wish to magpie, jot words that they have generated but which aren’t suitable for the task in hand and can jot questions/things they are unsure about. Explain that I will prompt to use these for the first couple of days but then children need to become more independent. Prizes for most effective use!
Ensure the children understand the difference between fiction ‘narrative’ and non fiction ‘non narrative’.
Activity One

Come back together and do class mind map for working wall.
Ask children to think of any titles of books which could fit with any of these genres. Ask children to discuss their preferences and discuss our preferences with them.

Activity Two
Talk about how they sorted the books in activity two. What clues were you looking for? Talk about words which suggest different genres. Explain activity three.
Activity One
In lit books complete quick mind map of different types of fiction genre.
Activity Two
Children to work in table groups. Children to be given a wide range of fiction books from class/school library.
Children to sort the books into fantasy, historical, science fiction and mystery by scanning the book, looking at the front cover and reading the blurb.

Activity Three
Children to have a selection of pictures from books (front covers and insides) and blurbs from a variety of fiction books. Ch to decide which genre they think they book comes from and justify their opinion by highlighting the key words or annotating the pictures.
SEN: () to work as a group on this task.
MA: In pairs. With teacher to work with ‘Quality Question Marks’ (both groups).
HA: Independently.
Plenary:
What have we learned? What is narrative? Non narrative? What is a genre? Name some genres of narrative? What is your favourite? Why? Least favourite? Why?
Does this link to visual literacy (i.e. do films and TV programs split into genres?)