Year 6 Literacy Plans Autumn Spring Summer Sats Revision Weeks Road Dahl

Planning for the year.

Literacy Year 6

I particularly like the 4 week sats revision block.

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sample planning ;

Full range of punctuation used accurately to demarcate sentences, including speech punctuation
• Syntax and punctuation within the sentence generally accurate including commas to mark clauses.
To revise and produce a piece of journalistic writing.
Revise formal & persuasive writing.
Whole Class Shared Learning

Explain that the next four weeks are important revision sessions.
Define the word ‘revision’ and display on the working wall.

In their new groups, children to define the following words, definitions on post it notes:
Journalist
Communication
Bias
Balanced

Come back together and discuss, agree definitions.
Would we find journalistic writing anywhere else other than in a newspaper report? Recap that we may find it in magazines or journals as well as scripts for radio and TV news broadcasts.
How does journalistic writing differ from ‘personal’ writing?
Formal tone, 3rd person, balanced, in journalistic writing a person puts the main points in the first sentence of the first paragraph – what will grab a person’s attention. This is followed by the rest of the details and written so that the article can easily be edited from the bottom up, if the article needs shortening. Sources are mentioned within the text and sentences and paragraphs can be short.

Read the ‘Total Eclipse’ article from Essential Non-fiction and discuss.
Draw out the 5 Ws.
Now read ‘Packaging: The Big Cover Up’ also from Essential non-fiction.

Activity One

Come back together and discuss activity. What did the children find about the two articles? What are the similarities? Differences?
How have the writers used language to report/persuade?