Flood by Alvaro F.Villa-writing the opening of the story

This is a 10 day DIFFERENTIATED TEACHING POWERPOINT complete with a success criteria for each lesson, talk tasks, learner tasks as well as accompanying resources to teach from the book, Flood. The lessons include comprehension and grammar based on the book and it is pitched at National Curriculum levels Y3, Y4 or Y5.

All the lessons follow in sequence and each lesson whether comprehension or grammar builds up to the long writing task, which is to write the opening of Flood.

The learners’ can use their work from Day 1 to Day 9 and interweave it into the Long Write. Some lessons include a word bank to support EAL/SEN learners and a word bank and sentence starter bank for all learners for the long write.

This set of lessons is structured based on the best pedagogical approaches to use in the classroom such as AFL questions to gather what learners already know, the use of talk partners to share learning, allowing learners to choose their own task from MILD, SPICY and HOT (this works wonders for their self-esteem) The tasks are differentiated and progressive and the assessment at the end of the lesson is based on the success criteria.

Lesson 1 - Comprehension: To make a prediction.

Lesson 2- Comprehension: To raise questions

Lesson 3 -Grammar : To create expanded nouns

Lesson 4 -Comprehension: To answer questions.

Lesson 5 - Comprehension: To answer questions.

Lesson 6- Grammar: To use speech punctuation.

Lesson 7 - Planning : To plan the opening of a story

Lesson 8 - Grammar: To use adverbs.

Lesson 9 - Speaking and Listening : To participate in role play and ask relevant questions.

Lesson 10 - Composition: To write the opening of a story.