Back to School The Piano by Aidan Gibbons Year 6 Literacy Planning

Great planning and powerpoints on this fascinating topic.

sample :

1. Speaking
   • Tell a story using notes designed to cue techniques such as repetition, recap and humour
2. Drama
   • Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues
3. Understanding and interpreting texts
   • Infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
   • Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
4. Creating and shaping texts
   • Reflect independently and critically on their own writing and edit and improve it
   • Experiment with different narrative forms and styles to write their own stories
5. Sentence structure and punctuation
   • Adapt sentence construction to different text-types, purposes and readers
   • Punctuate sentences accurately, including using speech marks and apostrophes

Understand, analyse and compare several ‘visual texts’.
Comment on the technical parts of a visual text.
Write a review using correct format and language.
Whole Class Shared Learning
Guided and Independent Activities:

Start to understand what is meant by a ‘visual text’. What do we know so far about narrative writing? Create a list of facts to add to working wall including: fictional, dialogue, opening etc.
Explain to the children briefly, that they are going to watch a short, animated film, entitled ‘The Piano.’ Explain also that there is no dialogue or narration; it will be up to the children to decide what the film is about, to answer simple questions, raise some of their own and provide their own explanations for what they see.
Tell the children that they’re going to watch the film, quietly and without comment at first. Then, watch ‘The Piano’ by Aidan Gibbons.

Model completing thinking feeling and speech shapes linked to the narrative.