30 lessons – ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell – Year 4/5/6 – English planning
A whole term’s English planning linked to the book ‘The Explorer’ (Winner of the Children’s Book Prize Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2017) by Katherine Rundell. This story fits well with any topic linked work about South America, as it is set in the Amazon Rainforest.
Ideal for Year 4, Year 5 or Year 6 children.
There are 30 lessons in total, all with SMART Notebook screens, task sheets and header sheets.
To assist teaching, there are a total of 149 SMART Notebook screens and each lesson is clearly marked along with which lesson each chapter should be read to aid and link to the learning.
(Update - I personally use SMART Notebook files in my own lessons. In response to many requests, I have converted the SMART Notebook screens to Powerpoint, so there is also a Powerpoint presentation included for the teaching sequence for those unable to use SMART Notebook. However, please note that while the SMART Notebook screens can be edited, the Powerpoint screens can not be edited as they are screen snips from the SMART Notebook file.)
This planning includes:
- Writing a narrative
- Writing a persuasive letter
- SATs style comprehension questions
- Journal writing
- Writing an information text
- Recording a radio broadcast
This book and planning link well with topic work on South America, Brazil, the Amazon Rainforest and the Yanomami indigenious tribe. It will also educate and inform the children of a very current real problem that others in the world face - the destruction of the rainforest.
Some comments from reviews on this resource:
- ‘This resource is absolutely brilliant - it has everything you need for a term’s worth of work on The Explorer … in an engaging and fun way. Perfect!’ (staylor138)
- ‘Fantastic and well worth the money, a very broad range of activities that are very well planned and resourced.’ (taylor29)
- ‘Great resource- such a timesaver!’ (penrich1)
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TES said they would pass my email to contact you directly. Do you know if they have?
Some nice ideas in there, ok for Year 3/4 but not really suitable for an ambitious Year 5 curriculum. Long writing pieces spread over a week but could really be one or two lessons. All lessons well resourced, but there are free versions of this on TES which are equally as good.
Great resource- such a timesaver! Thank you! The embedded videos on the Amazon in lesson 3 do not work on the powerpoint. Please could you forward the links? Many thanks.
Great Resource but I cant open the smart board slides. Do you have them as a PPT or on Inspire?
Fantastic and well worth the money, a very broad range of activities that are very well planned and resourced. Thank you very much, you have saved me hours of work.
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