Literacy Year 5 or 6 Stories from Other Countries 3 Weeks Planning Ahmed's Secret Heide

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Sample planning :

Genre: Narrative Unit 3 – ‘Stories from other cultures’
Focus Texts: ‘Abela’ by Berlie Doherty (class reader), ‘The day of Ahmed’s secret’ by Florence Parry Heide, ‘Stories from around the world’ Usborne books.

Objectives
Primary Framework Phase 1
• Create roles showing how behaviour can be interpreted from different viewpoints
• Know and apply common spelling rules
• Infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
• Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
• Experiment with different narrative form and styles to write their own stories
Adapt sentence construction to different text-types, purposes and readers
Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophes.
Learning/Writing outcome for unit: Write a story from a different character’s point of view. Reflect on writing critically and edit it against success criteria.
LO: Whole Class Shared Learning
Guided and Independent Activities: Plenary:
M Understand and use the word ‘culture’.
Begin to recognise the features of a story from another culture. Show the words ‘narrative’ and ‘fiction’. Children to TTYP and talk about what they mean. Come back together and elicit that they are words for ‘story’. We are going to be studying a narrative unit for two weeks. Briefly recap the five structural features of a story. What types of stories have we studied so far? (Myths, legends and stories by a significant author).
Show the word ‘culture’. Children to TTYP and discuss.
Come back together and explain that a culture refers to “the attitudes and behaviour that are characteristic of a particular social group.” Emphasise that we are not necessarily talking about different religions or even other countries – there are a lot of different cultures even within one country.
Lead to class discussion.
Provide children with copies of ‘The Day of Ahmed’s Secret’ – explain that this story is from Africa. Ahmed lives in a city called Cairo – the capital of Egypt. Show on a map. Have we heard anything about Cairo in the news recently?
Read half of the story and then challenge children to discuss on their tables:

• The features of the story.
• Their predictions about Ahmed’s secret.
  Come back together, read the rest of the story and discuss.
  How is Ahmed’s life different from your lives? In his culture it is perfectly normal for children to be working very hard and taking over the family business from his Father. What does his pride at being able to write his own name suggest about his level of education? About his place in society?
  Create a working wall list of features to include:
  Capital letters used at the start of each sentence and full stops at the end.