This unit of work is inspired by and based off of the planning from the Emmanuel Project which is attached in these downloads.
There are 5 lessons in this unit of work. There is a range of activites such as: Art, creating posters, debates and writing.
This unit of work has been taught for two years and has been successful each time.
Here are 28 Guided Reading lessons. Each lesson comes with a set of questions based on the reading VIPERS.
Questions are to be stuck in books for children to answer.
This was originally made for a Year 4 class so could easily be adapted up to Year 5 or down to Year 3.
Most lessons have two sets of differentiated questions.
Tasks in this unit include:
Diary writing
sequencing the story
book review
Answering questions
Drawing
This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class.
Can be easily adapted.
It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters.
Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs)
Lesson 2: Use paragraphs
Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2)
Lesson 4: Create a shared plan
Lesson 5: Create a shared write
Lesson 6: Create an independent plan
Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias)
Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work
Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)
This uses the stimulus video of Alma.
The Smartnotes document goes through the short film step by step with key questions to think about and promote creative, descriptive writing.
Can be used flexibly throughout KS2.
used as a stimulus for writing a job application
Spy Kids stimulus
Smart notes goes through a process of thinking about what the children’s skills are, what experience in secret agent work they have done before (imaginative thinking) and shows appropriate letter structure.
Suitable for all KS2. One Powrpoint document that can be used over a period of weeks for many art lessons based on portraits.
explanation of a portrait
famous examples of portraits
Analysis questions of famous portraits
Step by step guide to drawing part of the human face - proportions, eyes, nose, mouth, ears
Body proportion
Created for Year 4 but easily adaptable.
Included are the worksheets/questions for the whole book.
2 per page - easy to print and trim.
All objectives based on the reading VIPERS
Here are 8 lessons which goes from page 1 up to page 53 of the book.
-Read the book to the children/Children read the chapters stated.
Children complete the activity for the lesson.
Answers included for easy marking.
Made and completed for Year 4.
Easily Adaptable.
I taught this to a Year 4 class but this can be used from Year 4 - Year 6.
This will support children in knowing how to cope with loss and exploring this and strategies to support them. Included in this are the tasks and links to stories on Youtube so you do not need the physical book yourself.
Lesson 1: Analysis and looking at the work of Alice Bailly and Pablo Picasso. Info about the artists with key questions to answer based on their work.
Comparison task.
(For KS1, this can be done whole class and stuck into books. KS2 independent work)
Lesson 2: Children explore cubism skills by understanding what cubism is and drawing a selection of random objects through a cubist lens.
Lesson 3: Children explore wool painting and have an opportunity to explore different patterns and styles of wool painting.
Lesson 4: Children create their own cubism self-portraits. They add a section of wool painting to the art.
Clear planning leading up to an independent write on a non-chronological report on Ancient Maya. This can easily be adapted to another topic for the non-chronological report.
It includes:
Powerpoints
Differentiated worksheets
Extra information word document where needed
Links to videos to use
Lesson 1 - Features of a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like)
2: Nouns and pronouns
3: Applying knowledge of nouns and pronouns
4: Using paragraphs
5: Shared write
6: Edit and improve a WABOLL (what a bad one looks like)
7: Planning a non-chronological report on Maya
8: Independent Write
Step 9 would be to publish.
The SPAG this includes:
title, subheadings, glossary, paragraphs, fronted adverbials, nouns/pronouns for clarity, subject-specific vocabulary.
Suitable for Year 3 and 4.
This took 2 weeks to complete with my class.
The following plan will go through these lessons:
I can understand what a myth is and identify their themes and features.
I can compare and contrast different versions of a Roman Myth
I can use drama to empathise with characters in a story
I can explain when to use possessive apostrophes in character descriptions
I can understand the general structure of a myth.
I can plan the characters and setting for my own myth.
I can use adverbials to open my myth.
I can use conjunctions in my myth.
Lots of fun to introduce the topic of Romans. Made for year 4 but can easily be adapted. Includes smart notes, differentiated resources and activities.