With over 13 years of primary teaching experience across Key Stage 2 (Year 3 to Year 6). I am now embarking on NPQSL to build on my experience and develop further my leadership skills. During this time, I have held several subject lead positions; R.E.; School Council Co-ordinator; SEND champion; Music lead; IT lead and currently PSHE lead. Please look through my resources, which I have carefully selected as successful and useful in teaching the primary curriculum.
With over 13 years of primary teaching experience across Key Stage 2 (Year 3 to Year 6). I am now embarking on NPQSL to build on my experience and develop further my leadership skills. During this time, I have held several subject lead positions; R.E.; School Council Co-ordinator; SEND champion; Music lead; IT lead and currently PSHE lead. Please look through my resources, which I have carefully selected as successful and useful in teaching the primary curriculum.
I have used this text and resources with Year 4 students many times and they have always been successful in getting even the most reluctant pupils to engage in creative writing.
This unit of work is designed to support the teaching and learning of Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo. It includes approximately 14 sessions worth of materials that provide pupils with the opportunity to practice and refine their writing skills through short writing exercises. The bundle contains PowerPoint presentations, differentiated worksheets, and other supporting materials.
The planning has been adapted from various sources and tailored to the way in which English is taught in my school. There is no Week 4 planning as it was assessment week, so it naturally follows onto Week 5. The following objectives are covered:
Write predictions about a character and text
Write a character description
Using expanded noun and prepositional phrases to describe a monster.
Describe the beast and his crimes in two paragraphs.
Write a character profile about Beowulf.
Identify adverbial phrases and use fronted adverbials in sentences
Write an effective and detailed character description
Image what it was like to be one of Beowulf’s soldiers.
Complete time-line of events using conjunctions and adverbial phrases.
Plan and discuss 3 paragraphs
Retell the story of Beowulf
Re-draft a retelling of Beowulf
Plan and draft own Beowulf adventure
Edit and re-draft own Beowulf story
This resource bank is designed to support Year 3 students in their reading and learning of Neil Gaiman’s book, “The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish”. However, it can also be adapted for Year 4 students with additional objectives for adverbials and fronted adverbials.
The materials provide a two-week plus sequence of activities, including PowerPoint presentations, differentiated worksheets, and other supporting materials. The sequence is designed to help students read and discuss the story, identify the different characters and their voices, and analyse the conventions of written dialogue and the use of speech marks (inverted commas).
The resources also encourage students to write their missing scenes from the book and write a diary entry from the perspective of Dad. Finally, the sequence culminates in students using the cliffhanger at the end of the book to plan and write their sequel using the structure of the original story.
Please note that no planning is included as it is largely drawn from the Literacy Company planning.
The following objectives are covered:
To write multi-clause sentences using because as a conjunction
To understand the conventions of dialogue
To punctuate direct speech
To use apostrophes for possession and contraction
To write a missing scene
To write a diary entry
To re-tell a story orally
To plan a story based on the original plot
To write the opening of a story
To write the middle part of a story
To write the ending of a story
To evaluate, edit and improve my writing