Overview of the Unit: Lesson 1: Engage Through Drama Kick off the unit with playscripts and hot seating to spark interest and immerse pupils in the Viking topic. Lessons 2–4: Master Relative and Embedded Clauses Build technical skills by focusing on relative clauses and embedded clauses using dashes. Scaffolded tasks include identifying, practicing, and applying these skills to descriptive paragraphs about the Vikings. Lesson 5: Expanded Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases Teach pupils to add detail and precision to their writing by crafting vivid sentences about Viking roles and lifestyle. Lesson 6: Ad Same Ad Sentence Structure Introduce Allan Peat’s Ad Same Ad sentences to help students create impactful, descriptive sentences. Lesson 7: Describing Viking Clothing Apply learned skills to describe Viking clothing and settlements, blending expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and Ad Same Ad sentences. Lessons 8–10: Using Formal Language Guide students to write formally, using generalizers and precise vocabulary, while practicing formal sentence construction. Lesson 9: Plan the Report Pupils organize their ideas under clear subheadings, ensuring all features—relative clauses, formal language, expanded phrases—are included. Lessons 10–12: Writing the Non-Chronological Report Over three lessons, pupils draft their reports, working to different ability levels with sentence starters, scaffolds, and modeled examples. Lesson 13: Publish with Style Pupils polish their work, adding illustrations and neat formatting to create a final report ready for display or assessment. Key Features: Fully differentiated tasks to support lower ability, age-related, and greater depth learners. Focus on grammar skills: relative clauses, embedded clauses, expanded noun phrases, and formal language. Engaging activities including hot seating, sentence crafting, and publishing with illustrations. Scaffolds, WAGOLLs, and success criteria provided for every step. Perfect for cross-curricular links with history or thematic units on the Vikings. Why Teachers Love It: Saves time with ready-to-teach lesson plans and resources. Encourages creativity alongside rigorous grammar skills. Supports writing progression with clear success criteria and scaffolded tasks. Engages learners with a high-interest topic and varied teaching methods. What’s Included: 13 detailed lesson plans with objectives, activities, and differentiation. WAGOLL examples for each skill. Printable planning templates, worksheets, and success criteria. Editable resources for tailoring to your class.

Week 1: Prefixes and Clauses Focus Areas: Recognizing prefixes such as “dis-”, “un-”, “im-”, and “il-” to change word meanings (e.g., “logical” to “illogical”). Differentiating between main and subordinate clauses in complex sentences. Punctuating subordinate clauses accurately. Question Types: Multiple-choice questions to identify correct prefixes. Underline the subordinate clause in a sentence. Rewrite sentences by adding a subordinate clause using conjunctions like “because” or “although.” Week 2: Suffixes and Relative Clauses Focus Areas: Adding suffixes such as “-ness,” “-ment,” and “-ful” to root words to create nouns or adjectives. Identifying and writing relative clauses with “who,” “which,” “that,” and “where.” Applying commas to separate relative clauses. Question Types: Fill-in-the-blank to add appropriate suffixes to given root words. Identify the relative clause in a sentence and underline it. Write sentences including a relative clause to add detail to a subject or object. Week 3: Fronted Adverbials and Dashes Focus Areas: Using fronted adverbials to add variety and clarity to sentence openers Employing dashes to insert extra information or emphasize ideas in writing. Question Types: Match fronted adverbials (e.g., “Without hesitation”) with appropriate main clauses. Rewrite sentences to include dashes for clarity (e.g., “James—a skilled musician—played the piano beautifully”). Identify fronted adverbials in a text and add them to sentences. Week 4: Sentence Types and Direct Speech Focus Areas: Distinguishing and constructing the four sentence types: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. Punctuating direct speech with quotation marks, commas, and attributions. Question Types: Sort sentences into categories (statement, question, command, exclamation). Rewrite sentences to correctly punctuate direct speech (e.g., “Where are you going?” asked Sarah). Write short sentences of each type, ensuring correct punctuation is applied. Week 5: Grammar Consolidation Focus Areas: Combining grammar elements taught in previous weeks (prefixes, suffixes, clauses, fronted adverbials, sentence types, and punctuation) in extended writing. Editing sentences for grammatical accuracy. Question Types: Spot-the-error: Correct grammar mistakes in a paragraph. Write extended sentences incorporating at least two grammar features (e.g., a fronted adverbial and a relative clause). Combine two simple sentences into one using a subordinate clause or relative clause.

Lesson 8 - Plan the first set of instructions Lesson 9 - Plan the second set of instructions Lesson 10/ Lesson 11 - To write a set of instructions

Visual verb word mat

Writing unit based on making a set of instructions on training a dragon: Lesson 4: Understanding complex sentences Lesson 5: Using imperative verbs with adverbs Lesson 6: Using time adverbials Lesson 7: Writing an introduction using compound and complex sentences Lesson 8: Writing the first part of the instructions

Week 1 of planning based on how to train your dragon. Final piece is a set of instructions based on year 5 expectations. Lesson 1: Understanding the context of How to train a dragon In depth analysis of the author Characters Dragons Lesson 2: Understanding the features of instructions Brackets Compound and complex sentences Numbered instructions Engage the reader Imperative (bossy) verbs WAGOLL based on training a Sleipnir (8 legged Viking horse) Uses all the features and follows the same structure of the final piece Lesson 3: Understanding compound and simple sentences Gives definitions of simple sentences Gives definitions of compound sentences Insert the coordinating conjunction in the missing gap Writing compound sentences based on a stimulus linked to “How to train your dragon”

Writing mat for the Anglo Saxon Boy based on the part where Magnus reaches the Viking

Lesson 1: Prediction based on front cover, reviews and blurb Read the prologue Lesson 2: Word meaning lesson based on the prologue Lesson 3: Retrieval lesson based on the prologue

Year 5 Guided reading lesson on Christianity in England Word meaning Retrieval

Year 5 guided reading 2 lessons Word meaning Retrieval

Two lessons Word meaning Retrieval Teaching strategies for word meaning and retrieval Answers and text included

Two lessons Word meaning Retrieval Can be adapted for year 3-Year 6 Text included with strategies on teaching slides

Lesson 1: Word meaning Lesson 2: Retrieval Text included on the powerpoint Modelled questions on the teaching slides

Wolves in the wall writing plan 5 day lesson unit on writing a descriptive narrative that slightly changes the features of the Wolves in the walls Included Wagoll handwritten

Week 2 teaching slides: Lesson 1: Using expanded noun phrases Lesson 2: Using expanded noun phrases in my writing Lesson 3: Edit and uplevel Lesson 4: Using subordinating conjunctions in my writing Lesson 5: Writing sentences that use speech (includes quizes)