How to train your dragon isntructions writing unit
Can be adapted for year 3- year 5
Features:
Time conjunctions
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Sub headings
Adverbs
Imperative verbs
3 week planning of guided reading
Word meaning
Retrieval
Inference
Explanation questions
Answers
Based on the Book “Shackelton’s journey”
Questions on each chapter of the book
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”
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
Year 5 Mastery style lesson
Includes teaching slides with modeled questions
Sentence stems
Bronze worksheet
Silver worksheet
Gold worksheet
Bar model questions
Missing digit questions
Year 5 mastery lesson
Includes: Sentence stems
Frayer models
Addition on a number line
Adding more than 4 digits
Addition pyramids
Reasoning questions
Bronze Silver and Gold questions.
Main events in Shakespeare’s life.
Task 1: Sequencing the events into early life, main work and legacy
Task 2: Writing the events in a chronological order
Recaps some year 4 learning.
Covers:
Exploring fractions
Finding equivalent fractions.
Exploring fractions greater than 1.
Converting improper fractions into mixed numbers.
Converting mixed numbers into improper fractions.
Throughout the lesson plans:
Concrete activities are planned
Pictorial representations are covered
Abstract forms of fractions are planned
Aligns well with white rose maths style of teaching.