This unit of work involves 10 lessons that are creative and go into depth in inferring from the text. This is a creative unit if work which requires less writing and more hands-on, illustrative work. It mostly follows the plan from the CPLE Power of Reading planning for this book. It is a good unit of work to do when returning to school from a holiday break.
PHYSICAL BOOK NOT NEEDED. A virtual copy of the book is inserted in the Powerpoint
Lesson 1 - Respond to illustrations
Lesson 2 - Understand how illustrations and text create mood
Lesson 3 - Explore and illustrate a character
Lesson 4 - Write a poem about a lion
Lesson 5 - Illustrate a page in the book
Lesson 6 - Explore events and characters’ thoughts
Lesson 7 - Reflect on how characters are feeling
Lesson 8 - Write a diary as a character
Lesson 9 - Analyse impactful words
Lesson 10 - Communicate a mesage
All lessons are saved into one PowerPoint for efficient downloading.
Each lesson is clearly stated in the Powerpoint.
The book can be accessed online via Youtube.
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Lessons are based on the VIPERS reading skills.
Attached in this unit if work are 28 questioning tasks that take you through the text.
There are Powerpoints made for the first 15 tasks.
The Powerpoints follow the structure of:
Revisit
Talk Task
Vocabulary
Focus
Deepen
Independent Activity
Exit Pass
Each lesson was made to be taught to a Year 5 class based on the book Malamander by Thomas Taylor. However, this can be used in both Year 4 and Year 6.
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In this unit of work you are downloading 15 lessons. Each lesson comes with a Powerpoint presentation. The number of lessons can be extended if you decide to add a ‘edit and improve’ session and a ‘publishing’ session on produced pieces of work.
This unit is inspired by the Power of Reading unit for Hot Like Fire by Valerie Bloom. The book is not needed as all resources needed from the book have been typed up and provided into the download unit.
Learning Objectives are as follows:
PART 1:
Session 1: to annotate a poem
(exploration of ‘Grandma, Bandana an’ me’ and ‘How to ask for a hamster’)
Session 2: understand language used in a poem
(translating the poem ‘De Familiar thing’ from Jamaican dialect to English)
Session 3: Understand the meaning behind words
(dramatising the poem De Bread Van’)
Session 4: Identify the difference between poetry and prose
The following sessions follow a writing cycle which allows build-up to a piece of writing/
Session 5: understand and annotate a poem (‘The People Next Door’)
Session 6: Identify and use conjunctions
Session 7: plan a responding letter (to the invite to dinner that is given to the audience in the poem ‘The people next door’)
Session 8, 9 and 10 can be a writing session, editing session and then publishing session.
PART 2:
This part of the planning unit is exploring and writing with inspiration by Valerie Bloom’s ‘The River’ poem.
Session 1: Explore a poem (The River by Valerie Bloom and then 'Life is Like a River by Patricia Walter)
Session 2: understand rhyming patterns
Session 3: Create my own rhyming poem (inspired by the river poems)
Session 4: Create a drama piece
PART 3
This part of the planning unit is about creating poems about chocolate, using the learning and inspiration that has been covered int he last two parts.
Session 1: Use onomatopoeia and alliteration
Session 2: Use rhyming couplets and expanded noun phrases
Session 3: Experience chocolate for our poems
Session 4: Plan our poems
This will then lead onto a writing session, editing and publishing session.
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Here are 24 lessons based on the book The Nothing To See Here Hotel by Steven Butler.
Each lesson up to lesson 15 comes with a Powerpoint and a task. Each task if based off of the reading VIPERS. There are 24 tasks planned to be completed in books and 15 of these tasks come with Powerpoints attached.
This was taught to Year 4 but can easily be taken and slightly adapted to Year 3 and 5.
Each Powerpoint follows the structure:
Talk Task (discussion question based on the book)
Vocabulary (introducing new words they may come across in today’s reading)
Focus (main reading part with a focus question)
Deepen (children asked to explain something)
Independent Activity (questions in Guided Reading books based on the VIPERS)
Exit Pass (summarising quick question)
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Here are 20 lessons based on the book The Great Chocoplot by Chris Callaghan.
Each lesson comes with a Powerpoint and a task. Each task if based off of the reading VIPERS.
This was taught to Year 4 but can easily be taken and slightly adapted to Year 3 and 5.
Each Powerpoint follows the structure:
Talk Task (discussion question based on the book)
Vocabulary (introducing new words they may come across in today’s reading)
Focus (main reading part with a focus question)
Deepen (children asked to explain something)
Independent Activity (questions in Guided Reading books based on the VIPERS)
Exit Pass (summarising quick question)
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Created with Year 3 and 4 in mind.
This unit comes with a Powerpoint for each lesson and attached resources. I have provided SEN/EAL word banks within this unit if work too. Many of the lessons have simplified and differentiated worksheets and tasks for significant SEN and EAL pupils.
There are 13 lessons provided but this can be extended to 19 lessons if you follow my notes below.
Week 1:
Lesson 1: Illustrate the opening of Iron Man.
Lesson 2: Use conjunctions
Lesson 3: Use similes
Lesson 4: Write from Hogarth’s point of view (when he first sees Iron Man)
Lesson 5: Write a diary entry from Hogarth’s point of view
Week 2:
(structured writing cycle)
Lesson 6: Plan a diary entry (More structure for the next diary entry which is about when Hogarth traps Iron Man in a deep hole)
Lesson 7: Write a diary entry
I then used the rest of this week to finish writing, edit writing and publish writing which took this to a whole week)
Week 3:
Lesson 8: Collect impressive adjectives to describe the scrapyard
Lesson 9: Create a piece of art inspired by the scrapyard
‘Extra SPAG lesson expanded noun phrases’ taught here.
Week 4:
Lesson 10: Identify and use similes and metaphors
Lesson 11:Plan a suspenseful horror poem (WAGOLL provided)
Lesson 12: Write a suspenseful horror poem
I then used the rest of week 4 to finish writing, edit and improve, and publish.
Here are 16 lessons with tasks that go up to Chapter 6 of the book.
Each Powerpoint consists of the following slides:
Revisit
Talk Task
Vocabulary
Focus
Deepen
Independent Activity
Exit Pass
This was aimed at Year 4 pupils but could be easily adapted. The planning goes over a few lessons per chapter so it can be studied in depth. My class loved this book and enjoyed the tasks that we did based around the text.
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This unit of work involves 5 lessons that are creative and go into depth in inferring from the text. This is a unit of work that works on inference and understanding the text. It mostly follows the plan from the CPLE Power of Reading planning for this book. The lessons have some writing opportunities, group work activities and drama/role-play activities.
Lesson 1 - Infer from illustrations
Lesson 2 - Write an encouraging letter
Lesson 3 - Share my opinions about the character’s actions
Lesson 4 - Explore the impact of language choic
Lesson 5 - Ask questions
Each lessons comes in its own Powerpoint.
The book can be accessed online via Youtube.
Each lesson has a section for a quick spelling practice that currently include Year 4 spellings but this can be easily changed.
Each lesson has a short grammar warm up and ends with a word game.
9 weeks worth of homework!
Each week consists of two sets - one for on track learners and one for ‘SEN’ learners. The SEN homework is slightly more visual and goes through the KS1 spellings. The on-track homework takes spellings from the Year 3/4 government spelling list.
The homework is intended to be printed double sided with a times table task on one side and spellings on the other.
The homework has the due date written on the top of the page which is due in on Fridays but this can easily be amended.
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This unit of work involves 7 lessons that are creative and go into depth in inferring from the text. This is a creative unit if work which requires less writing and more hands-on, illustrative work. It mostly follows the plan from the CPLE Power of Reading planning for this book. It is a good unit of work to do when returning to school from a holiday break.
Lesson 1 - Exploring the cover
Lesson 2 - Exploring illustrations
Lesson 3 - Understanding and emphathising with characters
Lesson 4 - Tracking the emotional journey through text and illustration
Lesson 5 - Understanding and illustrating characters
Lesson 6 - Design the next page in the book
Lesson 7 - Infer the characters’ feelings
Each lessons comes in its own Powerpoint.
The book can be accessed online via Youtube.
Here is 4 weeks worth of lessons based on The Pebble in My Pocket.
Some lessons are inspired by the planning sequence from The Power of Reading scheme of work which then builds up comprehension and understanding of the text to lead into writing.
Two high quality pieces of writing are planned, modelled, drafted, edited and published including a newspaper report and a persuasive speech on the environment.
Learning objectives for each lesson are:
1 - write a poem about a pebble
(examining and exploring real pebbles)
2 - create an image based on the text
(art inspired by the illustrations)
3 - use rich vocabulary
4 - create a storyboard
5 - identify and use formal language
6 - plan a newspaper report
7 - write a newspaper report
8 - edit and improve (no slides for this as children complete this independently through a checklist)
9 - publishing (no slides provided as this is children publishing their work in their neatest handwriting for display)
10 - respond to illustrations
11 - understand the impact of climate change
12 - explain the impact of climate change
13 - explain the impact of climate change
14 - identify and use emotive language
15 - plan a persuasive speech
16 - write a persuasive speech
17 - edit and improve (no slides for this as children complete this independently through a checklist)
18 - publishing (no slides provided as this is children publishing their work in their neatest handwriting for display)
This is not an exact copy of the planning from The Power of Reading. It is inspired by the planning - taking some lessons and elements and combining it with my school’s approach to writing.
Minimum of 14 lessons but another edit and improve session and publishing sessions can be added onto the end making this 16 potential sessions.
Aimed at LKS2, Year 3 and year 4.
Key skills taught in this unit:
Exploration and teaching of rich vocabulary around water
portraying a character’s emotion through verbs and adverbs
Inference skills
Present perfect tense/ past tense
Inverted commas for speech
This unit of work involves: Short bursts of writing involving of personal experiences around water which could be a diary entry but gives freedom of choice, poetry, asking key questions.
It also involves building up skills for children to write about an event that happens in the forest to the main character where he sees something scary in the bushes, runs away and then realises it was only a small animal such as a bunny or an owl. This gives the children opportunity to show, not tell emotions of fear, nervousness and relief.
The next part of the unit of work allows the main character to return home where Isac sees his Mum. This involves a conversation, applying their inverted commas skills. Here he can tell his Mum what happened in the forest and why he was so scared but then felt relieved because it was only an animal.
Planning documents attached. Key worksheets attached and differentiated activities attached.
Each lesson begins with a grammar warm up.
This unit of work is inspired by the planning of Power of Reading. Some lessons are the same but I have adapted it to include a writing cycle. The writing cycle supports students by including a grammar lesson, a planning lesson and then the writing lesson.
Power of reading week 1
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Eagle poems)
Power of reading week 2
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Letters)
When referring to the names Amari and Nala, my class gave the characters name so we knew who we were referring to throughout the story. Amari is the farmer’s friend who comes to visit the farmer and is shocked by the eagle. Nala Amari’s wife.
Lessons included are:
Lesson 1: Read and respond to the story ‘Fly Eagle Fly’
Lesson 2: Identify effective vocabulary
Lesson 3: Create a storyboard for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 4: Visualise and draw a setting
Lesson 5: Build a bank of vocabulary to describe an eagle
Lesson 6: Identify and use expanded noun phrases
Lesson 7: Gather information about eagles
Lesson 8: Create a plan for a poem
Lesson 9: Write a poem about an eagle (this can be extended to edit and publish)
Lesson 10: Understand a character’s feelings
Lesson 11: Understand a character’s perspective
Lesson 12: Identify powerful vocabulary
Lesson 13: Answer questions about a text
Lesson 14: Write a book review for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 15: Identify and use prepositions
Lesson 16: Gather information about South Africa
Lesson 17: Create a plan for a letter
Lesson 18: Write a letter (this can be extended to edit and publish)
Here are 28 Guided Reading lessons. Each lesson comes with a set of questions based on the reading VIPERS.
Questions are to be stuck in books for children to answer.
This was originally made for a Year 4 class so could easily be adapted up to Year 5 or down to Year 3.
Most lessons have two sets of differentiated questions.
Tasks in this unit include:
Diary writing
sequencing the story
book review
Answering questions
Drawing
This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class.
Can be easily adapted.
It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters.
Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs)
Lesson 2: Use paragraphs
Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2)
Lesson 4: Create a shared plan
Lesson 5: Create a shared write
Lesson 6: Create an independent plan
Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias)
Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work
Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)
This uses the stimulus video of Alma.
The Smartnotes document goes through the short film step by step with key questions to think about and promote creative, descriptive writing.
Can be used flexibly throughout KS2.
used as a stimulus for writing a job application
Spy Kids stimulus
Smart notes goes through a process of thinking about what the children’s skills are, what experience in secret agent work they have done before (imaginative thinking) and shows appropriate letter structure.
Created for Year 4 but easily adaptable.
Included are the worksheets/questions for the whole book.
2 per page - easy to print and trim.
All objectives based on the reading VIPERS
Here are 8 lessons which goes from page 1 up to page 53 of the book.
-Read the book to the children/Children read the chapters stated.
Children complete the activity for the lesson.
Answers included for easy marking.
Made and completed for Year 4.
Easily Adaptable.
Clear planning leading up to an independent write on a non-chronological report on Ancient Maya. This can easily be adapted to another topic for the non-chronological report.
It includes:
Powerpoints
Differentiated worksheets
Extra information word document where needed
Links to videos to use
Lesson 1 - Features of a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like)
2: Nouns and pronouns
3: Applying knowledge of nouns and pronouns
4: Using paragraphs
5: Shared write
6: Edit and improve a WABOLL (what a bad one looks like)
7: Planning a non-chronological report on Maya
8: Independent Write
Step 9 would be to publish.
The SPAG this includes:
title, subheadings, glossary, paragraphs, fronted adverbials, nouns/pronouns for clarity, subject-specific vocabulary.
Suitable for Year 3 and 4.
This took 2 weeks to complete with my class.