L S Lowry Literacy Work Powerpoints and Planning

Some nice powepoints and planning. Couple of weeks work. maybe a shade under.

sample:
Discuss the life of L.S. Lowry
Read a short biography from the internet and add any more information the children know or have already discovered themselves.
Recap the features of a biography.

Word/sentence Level
Connectives – recap time connectives and how to use them. Make up some sentences with ‘later, after, before etc’

H/A
Children to write a short biography of L.S. Lowry
Study some of the portraits created by L.S. Lowry
Mind-map/thought shower words to do with the subject of the picture – using the name as well if available.
Read some good quality character descriptions (level 5)

(VCOP)
Vocabulary – note down wow words that you may wish to include in your character description to describe thoughts and feelings.
H/A
Children to create character descriptions

• Use different narrative techniques to engage and entertain the reader.

Select words and language drawing on their knowledge of literary features and formal and informal writing

Create a poem based on L.S. Lowry

Listen to ‘Matchstalk men’ linking the song to the work of Lowry
Look at the Lyric of the song – discuss how songs are like poems.
Thought shower words to do with Lowry, his subjects and the scenes he created – think of emotive language
Discuss how we could write a poem about Lowry’s life, or about subjects or about Salford when he was painting.

Look at a range of poetry and discuss how it doesn’t have to rhyme, but can; how it often has a beat/meter