This unit of work is inspired by the planning of Power of Reading. Some lessons are the same but I have adapted it to include a writing cycle. The writing cycle supports students by including a grammar lesson, a planning lesson and then the writing lesson. Power of reading week 1 Writing cycle structure (outcome: Eagle poems) Power of reading week 2 Writing cycle structure (outcome: Letters) When referring to the names Amari and Nala, my class gave the characters name so we knew who we were referring to throughout the story. Amari is the farmer’s friend who comes to visit the farmer and is shocked by the eagle. Nala Amari’s wife. Lessons included are: Lesson 1: Read and respond to the story ‘Fly Eagle Fly’ Lesson 2: Identify effective vocabulary Lesson 3: Create a storyboard for Fly Eagle Fly Lesson 4: Visualise and draw a setting Lesson 5: Build a bank of vocabulary to describe an eagle Lesson 6: Identify and use expanded noun phrases Lesson 7: Gather information about eagles Lesson 8: Create a plan for a poem Lesson 9: Write a poem about an eagle (this can be extended to edit and publish) Lesson 10: Understand a character’s feelings Lesson 11: Understand a character’s perspective Lesson 12: Identify powerful vocabulary Lesson 13: Answer questions about a text Lesson 14: Write a book review for Fly Eagle Fly Lesson 15: Identify and use prepositions Lesson 16: Gather information about South Africa Lesson 17: Create a plan for a letter Lesson 18: Write a letter (this can be extended to edit and publish)

This is a unit of work that part follows CPLE Power of Reading planning. Week 1: Power of reading Week 2: Writing cycle (a structured approach that builds children up for a large piece of writing, including learning a new SPAG skill and applying it to writing) Week 3: Power of reading Week 4: Writing cycle. Power of reading inspired work includes a range of creative and engaging lessons to get children interested and enjoying the story. There are 12 full lessons but this can be extended into 16 lessons (see below). Here are the learning objectives of each lesson: Lesson 1: Make inferences about a character (intro to the book and discussion of characters) Lesson 2: Respond to an illustration (children create their own treasure map similar to in the story) Lesson 3: Sequence events in a story and make predictions Lesson 4: Use commas when writing lists (this will be applied to writing instructions) Lesson 5: Plan instructions (WAGOLL of set of instructions included and planning sheet) Lesson 6: Write instructions (WAGOLL of set of instructions included) Lesson 7: Visualise a character from the story (children create their own sea-monster like in the story) Lesson 8: Visualise a character and a setting from the story (children cut out their sea monster and place onto a setting they have designed to create a page for the story in the book) Lesson 9: Gather descriptive vocabulary (based on their sea creature and setting designs) Lesson 10: Use an apostrophe for contraction (this will be applied to diary writing) Lesson 11: Plan a diary entry (WAGOLL and planning sheet included) Lesson 12: Write a diary entry (WAGOLL included) 2 more lessons can easily be added after Lesson 6. This can be a lesson on editing their writing and then publishing their work. 2 more lessons can be added after lesson 12 for editing and publishing. The book is available online on Youtube so the physical book is not necessarily needed in order to follow this planning. Lesson slides are well thought-out and include slides on key vocabulary, SPAG starters, spelling practice opportunities and now/next/last slides. #ks1 #unitofplanning #unitofwork #english #englishunit #howtofindgold #cple #powerofreading #vivianeschwarz #year2 #spag #writing #reading #instructionwriting #diarywriting