English year 5 and 6 The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Planning and Powerpoints Literacy year 5

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Sample :

Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophes.
Use commas to mark clauses.
Group and classify words according to their type and meaning.
Read a variety of texts, commenting on the author’s choice of vocabulary.
Construct sentences which are punctuated correctly; including the use of commas, speech marks and apostrophes.
Use a range of connectives to join sentences.
Experiment with complex sentences.
Whole Class Shared Learning

Discuss pronouns (homework)
Define each type of word: Noun, adjective, verb and adverb. Build up a sentence as we go.

Show the children a picture on the whiteboard of a horse galloping and of a lightning bolt. Children to write down 3 (LA) or 5(MA and HA) important nouns from the picture. Share. On the left of the noun, children to write an adjective to modify or describe the noun. Share. After the noun, children to write a verb and then an adverb to qualify the verb.
e.g. The black horse galloped elegantly along the beach.

Praise the children on yesterday’s literacy work – they showed knowledge of the function of nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs (HA showed knowledge of the difference between common, proper and pro nouns).

Children to name a range of punctuation – I record on the board (I do not add to it at this point).
Ask volunteers to illustrate uses of the punctuation named. Look on the punctuation pyramid – have we named any L5 punctuation? This is what we should be aiming at all the time.

Children to have a variety of sentences to up level punctuation on their whiteboards.

Come back to ‘The Mysteries of Harris Burdick’. Read through all of the captions and talk about ‘reading’ the illustration. Allow children time to talk about the ‘mystery’ – what do they think happened to Harris Burdick?
Choose a picture from ‘The Mysteries…’ and list all of the questions which it provokes. What do children think of the pictures? Do the captions answer any of the questions?
Talk about the settings in the pictures – often they are recognisable, familiar settings where things are not as they seem. Explain that we would call this ‘Stories in a familiar setting’.

Model the task.

Use PPT to study speech punctuation.

Use the pictures from ‘The Mysteries…’ to write some possible dialogue.

Model possible conversations, including synonyms for said and adverbs plus adverbial clauses. With correct punctuation.

Look at some of the pictures from ‘The Mysteries …’
Think / discuss some of the characters in the pictures. Use adjectives to describe them – give them names. From the pictures come up with verbs to describe what they are doing then add adverbs and adverbial clauses.