Discussion Texts Teaching Pack Week 1

A detailed week covering the imitate phase of learning about discussion texts. Includes open questions, higher order thinking, engaging texts, video links, differentiation, 5 teaching PowerPoints, all resources, worksheets and answers.

Every day starts with an engaging starter focusing on SPAG skills, such as KS2 spellings, parenthesis, conjunctions and handwriting. Extra for experts activities for further challenge and modelled texts to support the lower ability.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand a discussion text and identify its features
• To identify facts and opinions
• To use conjunctions to link ideas in a for or against argument
• To write an introduction and conclusion
• To plan a discussion text on ‘Is Homework Necessary?’

Main activities differentiated by colour:
Green - LA
Yellow and blue - MA
Red - HA

Highlights:

1. Ready to teach
2. All printables provided
3. KS2 appropriate
4. Cross curricular links
5. Differentiated

Check out the follow up week for this unit here.