Year 6 SATs style reading comprehension questions based on the book ‘The Lion above the Door’ providing a WW2 link.
Chapters covered include: 2, 3, 15, 17, 19 and 21. Answers are included.
Suitable for Year 4 or Year 5.
Newspaper article writing based on the book ‘The Nothing to see Here Hotel’.
6 Lesson PPT’s included and WAGOLL.
Objectives covered:
WALT: Use drama to explore the events of a story.
WALT: Identify features of a newspaper report.
WALT: Use indirect and direct speech.
WALT: Plan a newspaper article.
WALT: Write a newspaper article.
WALT: Complete and edit a newspaper article.
SATs style questions based on the book When the Sky Falls.
Chapters covered are 1, 4, 7, 13, 14, 18 and 24 with worksheets and answers (the text is not included.
Slow Writing unit based on the short film ‘Joy and the Heron’ to help improve children’s creative writing.
Expanded noun phrase activity
Sentence Starter ISPACE actitivty
Slow Writing Sentence Strips
PPT
Ideal for Y3/4.
The Write Stuff style planning based on the book/short film ‘There’s a Rang-tan in My Bedroom.’
WAGOLL text
Broken down planning of the thinking side with ideas
Scaffolded thinking side
Success Criteria slips for children’s books
Plot Point Display images
Working wall ideas
Rainforest Page Border for publishing work
Link with Rainforests.
Ideal for Year 3 but can be adapted for Year 4.
Year 5/6 non-chronological report writing unit based on the book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
Includes:
PPT, WAGOLL, Worksheets
Lessons with full ppt for:
Explore features of information texts.
Write an introduction and appearance paragraph.
Write a paragraph around a theme.
Plan an information text.
Write an information text.
English lessons based on Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief covering these objectives:
Use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
Add detail to description using relative clauses.
Explore the subjunctive form.
Write predictively and descriptively.
PPT included and resources.
English lessons based on Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief covering these objectives:
Use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility.
Add detail to description using relative clauses.
Explore the subjunctive form.
Write predictively and descriptively.
WALT: Identify features of a newspaper article.
WALT: Punctuate direct and reported speech.
WALT: Roleplay interviews and record answers as punctuated speech.
WALT: Use semi-colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
WALT: Identify the difference between formal and informal language.
WALT: Understand and recognise active and passive voice.
WALT: Plan a newspaper article.
WALT: Write a newspaper article.
WALT: Edit and improve writing.
WALT: Publish a newspaper article.
Ideal for Y6 | Writing planning based on the book Holes | Outcome = writing their own short chapter.
3 full lessons with ppts
WALT: Rewrite a chapter.
WALT: Rewrite a chapter.
WALT: Edit and improve writing.
Fully planned and resourced newspaper writing unit for Percy Jackson.
Ideal for Y6.
12 PPT’s (one for each lesson)
Grammar Memory Training Starter
Objectives covered:
WALT: Identify features of a newspaper article.
WALT: Punctuate direct and reported speech.
WALT: Roleplay interviews and record answers as punctuated speech.
WALT: Use semi-colons to mark boundaries between independent clauses.
WALT: Identify the difference between formal and informal language.
WALT: Understand and recognise active and passive voice.
WALT: Plan a newspaper article.
WALT: Write a newspaper article.
WALT: Edit and improve writing.
WALT: Publish a newspaper article.
Ideal for Y6| Writing unit based on the book Holes | Writing outcome is an informal letter.
PPTs for 6 lessons
WALT: Explore features of an informal letter.
WALT: Plan an informal letter.
WALT: Write an informal letter.
WALT: Write an informal letter.
WALT: Edit and improve my informal letter.
Ideal for Y6 | Writing unit based on the book Holes | Outcome is a formal letter of complaint to the local authority about Camp Green Lake.
5 full lessons with ppts
WALT: Identify features of a formal letter.
WALT: Summarise the key points for my letter of complaint.
WALT: Write a formal letter.
WALT: Write a formal letter.
WALT: Edit and improve my writing.
Ideal for Y6 | Writing unit based on Literacy Shed clip ‘Francis’| Writing outcome is a short suspenseful narrative.
PPTs for 4 full lessons including a guided writing process
Lessons 1 - 3 - WALT: Write a short story (including how to use show not tell, a dash and dialogue)
Lesson 4 - WALT: Edit and improve my writing.
Ideal for Y6 | Writing unit based on Literacy Shed clip ‘Francis’ | Children chose two animals to create their own hybrid animal and produce a formal information text.
6 lessons | full PPTs with grammar memory training
WALT: Research and make notes.
WALT: Plan an information text.
WALT: Manipulate grammar and vocabulary to control levels of formality.
WALT: Write an information text (with step by step ways to improve writing).
Ideal for Y6| Writing unit based on the clip ‘Francis’| Writing outcomes include an information text on a hybrid animal and a short suspenseful narrative.