Three weeks of 4-5 lessons per week based on the book “One Plastic Bag” by Miranda Paul based on the true story of Isatou Ceesay, the recycling champion. Various spelling, grammar and research tasks ending in writing an explanation text.

Several English lessons building up to writing own versions of the story of St. Frideswide, the Patron Saint of Oxford: -The story of St. Frideswide to tell to your class and explore together -Comic strip based on the show "Blind Date" (could also use take me out) to describe various Princes to come to try to win her hand in marriage -Sentences for improving based on the story -2 different planning formats for planning paragraph by paragraph

I used 'The Snowman' for a multimodal texts unit, comparing the book and the film. The ideas come from the Hamilton literacy scheme but they are adapted to a bit meatier lessons. The kids enjoyed this a lot and had a good mature attitude. I really enjoyed teaching the unit.

I split The Highwayman poem up for my class to learn a section each. We mimed the story in small groups whilst one child did each part of the narration.

-The ship's log from Christopher Columbus' voyage on the Santa Maria: Use it as a model to write a ship's log of the day before they arrive on the island. -A painting of the crew on board the ship with speech bubbles and thought bubbles ready to fill out for a conversation on board the ship. -Teach or revise speech punctuation then complete an assessment of chn's use of speech punctuation (two different ones there, I did two lessons and went through problems in between). -Then teach how to write reported speech and get the chn to turn their conversations on board the ship into a part of the story.