Outstanding Y5/6 Writing Interview Lesson - Building Cohesion

Need an outstanding English lesson for upper key stage 2? Then look no further.
This is a great way to showcase your teaching skills in a quick, snappy lesson that easily demonstrates progress.

Suitable for a literacy lesson, this descriptive writing lesson is based around the film clip Alma, and gets children to write a predictive paragraph about what could happen next. The questions included in the interactive PowerPoint are great to get children of all abilities thinking.

You can use this lesson flexibly from 40 minutes to an hour. It has been successfully used for interviews and Ofsted visits alike.

You will get:
✸ An outstanding lesson plan featuring mini-plenaries, success criteria and differentiated tasks.
✸ A PowerPoint with probing questions and guided writing prompts.
✸ A picture storyboard to prompt writing.
✸ An easier task with phrases to prompt writing.
✸ A mid-level task worksheet with examples of sentence openers, exciting vocabulary, sentence types and conjunctions and punctuation to use
✸ A harder task worksheet with spaces for children to write their own -ed, -ing and describing openers, exciting vocabulary and examples of different sentence types/punctuation they can use.
✸ An example of a perfect paragraph for children to create their own success criteria by identifying its features

Lesson objective: To use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within a paragraph.
Success criteria:
✸ Sentence openers
✸ Exciting vocabulary
✸ Conjunctions
✸ Punctuation
✸ Different sentence types (simple, compound, complex).

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