Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 5 wk story writing unit (66 files) plans, notebooks, activities

This is a detailed and differentiated 5 week Y4 unit based on the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, developing pupils’ creative wriiting through a highly scaffolded approach. Pupils build confidence with new vocabulary and specific grammar targets through repeated opportunities to practice and edit sentences on whiteboards. This approach was hugely impactful with my Y4 classes and I hope it works for you too.

The zip files includes everything you need to teach the six week unit: Medium term Plan, Weekly Plans, Daily Notebooks, differentiated worksheets and activities, differentiated success criteria, Word-mats, Reading Comp, Art task, extracts, scanned pictures from the book, guided reading tasks, grammar tasks, key vocabulary, key questions

The unit results in pupils writing, editing and publishing (book-making) their own story, based on the plot structure of the book.

Learning objectives covered include:

Use evidence from text to support views about a character.
Identify and underline examples of different narrative techniques in a text.
Create list of ‘What makes a good’ character description.
Collect vocabulary and build noun-phrase to describe a character’s appearance.
Describe a character through their actions.
Use a variety of sentence starter techniques.
Describe a setting using prepositional phrases.
Use noun-phrases to describe a character’s appearance.
Describe a character through their actions.
Use role-play to express a character’s feelings.
Start sentences with an ‘ing’ verb.
Refer to the text to use evidence to support views and opinions.
Plan character development through events in a narrative
Depict a character’s feelings through their actions.
Identify different word-classes.