This sequence of lessons studying newspaper reports is based around the theme of Space. It looks at a model text about Tim Peake’s journey to space and over two weeks teaches students how to structure a newspaper report part by part.
Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and all relevant material. Included is a unit planning overview so you can see how the lessons progress. At the end of the unit, the children are tasked to write their own newspaper reports using the techniques they have learnt.
The lessons progress as follows:
Lesson 1- Show what you know
Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on the model text
Lesson 3- Using a range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- boxing up the model text and planning own reports
Lesson 6- writing the headline, subheadline and introductory paragraph
Lesson 7-writing the main body of the report
Lesson 8- writing a conclusive paragraph
Lesson 9-Show what you know- independently writing own reports
Lesson 10- editing, improving and sharing writing
This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.
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This three-week unit of work is based on the text Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment.
The pupils will learn what the features of newspaper reports are and how to identify bias. They will look in detail at a ‘model text’ and will learn this off-by-heart to help them reproduce similar sentence structures and vocabulary in their own writing.
Through teacher modelling, they will embellish the class version on kidney xenotransplantation before writing their own independently using the techniques they have learnt.
Lesson 1- Have a go writing own newspaper report
Lesson 2- whole class guided reading on the model text (Pig Heart Boy based)
Lesson 3- Looking at how cohesion is created
Lesson 4- Features of newspaper reports
Lesson 5- ‘Boxing-up’- looking at how the model text is structured
Lesson 6- Analysing bias and how it is created in newspaper reports
Lesson 7, 8 & 9- Shared writing with teacher modelling
Lesson 10,11,12,13,14,15- planning, writing, editing and improving own newspaper reports
This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students.
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In this unit of 15 lessons, students will be supported in writing their own science fiction stories in the style of Talk4Writing. The lessons follow the sequence below:
-Introduction to science fiction
-Whole-class guided reading lesson on a model text
-Character development
-Creating a science fiction toolkit looking at the features of this text type
-Boxing up the model text
-Shared writing during the innovate stage and children learning how to develop a story from the opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending
-Children independently write their own stories
Each lesson comes with an engaging powerpoint presentation and the relevant resources. The process of writing their own stories is modelled and supported and they will learn how to describe characters and settings, how to create suspense, how to use sentence structures for effect and much more!
This lesson is intended for Year 5/6 students but can easily be modified to suit lower KS2 or KS3.
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This 3 week guided narrative unit of work follows the first six chapters of Pig Heart Boy and the Talk for Writing model with a baseline assessment- planning- imitation- innovation- independent application- final assessment.
The children work on their comprehension skills through whole class guided reading lessons based on what they have read so far. They learn to develop the characters through dialogue and description in structured lessons and through teacher modelling, they complete a shared write before independently writing the next chapter of the narrative.
Lesson 1- ‘Have a go’ independently writing next chapter
Lesson 2- Whole class guided reading on model chapter
Lesson 3- Exploring characters
Lesson 4- Characterisation through dialogue
Lesson 5- Characterisation through description
Lesson 6- Planning shared write
Lesson 7, 8 &9- Shared writing
Lesson 10- Chapter 5 comprehension
Lesson 11-15- Planning, writing and editing independent ‘Show what you know’
This unit is planned for Year 5 and 6 children but can easily be modified to suit lower KS3 students.
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This sequence of lessons is based on the Victorian period. The model story ‘The Fall’ tells the story of a young coal miner who is nearly involved in a mine disaster. The lessons cover how to write a story, links to the Victorians and SPAG coverage.
The unit lessons follow this sequence:
Lesson 1- Show what you know
Lesson2- whole class guided reading on the story ‘The Fall’
Lesson 3- identifying suspense
Lesson 4- Identifying adverbials and subordinate clauses
Lesson 5- Planning own historical fiction story
Lesson 6- whole class guided reading- Queen Victoria
Lesson 7- Writing the opening
Lesson 8- Writing the build up
Lesson 9- Writing the problem
Lesson 10- Writing the resolution and ending
Lesson 11 & 12- Writing own historical fiction story
Lesson 13-15- editing, improving and sharing stories
These lessons are intended for use with Year 5 & 6 children, however they can be easily modified to suit KS3 and lower KS2.
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In this bumper pack you will find a whole sequence of lessons on writing free verse poetry. The lessons follow this sequence but can be taught in any order:
-Introduction to free verse poetry
-Using similes in poetry
-Using metaphors in poetry
-Using personification in poetry
-Identifying other poetic devices
-Planning, writing and performing own poems
All of the power point presentations, resources and lesson plans are included. This unit of work will help children develop their vocabulary, use of poetic devices and will challenge their imagination in order to produce their own Free Verse poetry to create imagery.
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“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
This BUNDLE of lessons covers the following (Most of these lessons provide 2- 3 hours of teaching material):
-2x lessons- Whole-Class Guided Reading (on both Parts of the poem. Differentiated comprehension questions given as well as answers)
-Exploring figurative language in the poem (identifying use of metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia and considering what impact they have before writing own versions).
-Rewriting the poem as prose (links to video clips of the poem to evaluate as well as WAGOLLS given to support writing the poem as a story).
-Exploring characters (Roll on the Wall activity and character cards supporting inference and deduction skills).
-Character diary entry (features of diaries explored as well as WAGOLLs and a writing frame to write own diary entry).
-Balanced argument (features of balanced argument explored as well as structure support, WAGOLLS and a writing frame).
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This bundle (Classic Fiction) includes lessons on the following:
Whole-Class Guided Reading
Describing characters
Describing a setting
Altering speech for characters
Narrative style
Building tension and suspense
All lessons include a presentation, lesson plan and the relevant resources. These lessons have more content than an hour with the reading alongside and so will easily cover a two-week unit.
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In this BUNDLE, you will receive lessons on the following:
Lesson 1- Persuasive advertising
Lesson 2- Creating own persuasive advert
Lesson 3- Persuasive leaflets
Lesson 4- Identifying devices used in persuasive writing
Lesson 5- Writing own persuasive text
(The content of these lessons can easily spread over two weeks if taught as a whole unit).
These lessons provide lots of examples of persuasion in action and students will learn the acronym FREDEPTORS to help them remember persuasive devices. They will critique different forms of persuasive texts and will use the planning frames to produce their own persuasive advert, leaflet and text.
These lessons are ideal for upper KS2 and can easily be modified to suit KS3 also.
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Journalistic writing is the style of writing used to report news stories in newspapers, television broadcasts, on radio and on the Internet.
This bundle includes lessons on:
Forms of news
Features of newspaper articles
Direct and reported speech in newspaper reports
Identifying bias
Writing a newspaper report
All lessons have included presentations, lesson plans and resources!
A great bundle deal!
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In this sequence of 5 lessons:
Introduction to narrative and developing ideas for a story
Setting description
Planning story structure
Character description
Writing and reviewing stories
All of the lessons include an engaging presentation and the relevant resources.
These lessons are appropriate for KS2 children and can easily be modified to suit KS1-KS3.
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This wide range of Whole-Class Guided Reading lessons allow pupils to explore texts in an engaging way. PowerPoint presentations and related activities are all included and link to the National Curriculum objectives for Reading.
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