In this week-long unit of work about the first Moon landing, pupils examine an example diary text written from Neil Armstrong’s point of view recounting the Moon landing; they take part in a role play and learn about the Moon landing; and then plan, write and edit their own diary entries.
This resource contains 5 lessons with full lesson plans, differentiation, all required worksheets and handouts (x23), and lesson presentations (x5).
Example of resources included:
• Lesson presentations x5 (Smart Notebook, Powerpoint & PDF)
• WAGOLL diary text
• Feature Find worksheet
• Feature Find answers
• Differentiated planning templates
• Diary success criteria
• Moon landing timeline
• Moon landing vocabulary
• Detailed plans for each lesson with differentiation, starters, main teaching and tasks, and plenaries
All resources and lesson plans come as both Word documents and in PDF format. All lesson presentations come as Smart Notebook, Powerpoint and PDF files.
Suitable for Lower Key Stage 2. Useful for cross curricular English and history/science lessons.
Learning objectives
Main objectives:
• To identify features from a diary text
• To explore the feelings of a character
• To plan a diary entry
• To write a first draft of a diary entry
• To edit a diary entry
Year 3/4 English Curriculum objectives:
• To plan their writing by discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
• To participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/ improvisations and debates
• To plan their writing by discussing and recording ideas
• To draft and write by organising paragraphs around a theme
• To evaluate and edit by assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
• To evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency
• To proofread for spelling and punctuation errors
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