Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Writing - Complete 6-week Unit

A Complete 6-week English writing unit for the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. This unit focuses on quality activities, across a range of writing types, that improve children’s key grammatical and writing fluency skills. Suitable for Key Stage 2.

This pack contains a total of 28 lesson PowerPoints, model texts for the children to analyse, WAGOLLs for shared writes and writing banks which include ‘Steps to Success’ for each piece of writing and a word bank containing relevant spellings.

Each week roughly follows the same format (with exceptions):
Monday

• Grammar input followed by hunting through the model text to find that week’s Steps to Success
  Tuesday
• Planning for this week’s writing thinking about grammar
  Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
• A grammar starter linked to the Steps to Success
• A review on Monday’s model text
• A shared write using the provided WAGOLL
• Independent writing
• Editing and Improving using the CUPS method

The pack covers these units:
Week One - A character description of Charlie Bucket (3 lessons)
Week Two - A diary entry from the perspective of Charlie (5 lessons)
Week Three - Grammar input focusing on skills to include in…
Week Four - Newspaper report on one of the golden ticket finders
Week Five - Setting description of The Chocolate Room
Week SIx - Setting description of a room of the children’s imagination