I created and used this planning with a mixed ability year 5 class. The children thoroughly enjoyed the book and wrote brilliant work from it. Within these series of lessons, the children will practise using skills such as: semi colons, relative clauses, noun phrases, expanded noun phrases, conjunctions, fronted adverbials, adverbial phrases, adverbs, a range of sentence structures, superlatives & speech. Hidden Figures is a fantastic book to discuss the issue of racism and include black history across the curriculum. Hidden figures is also perfect for the topic of space as the inspirational women discussed in this book all worked in NACA and/or NASA. Included: 19 English lessons. Learning questions. Smart notebook slides. Almost all lessons are differentiated 3 ways. (Blue = higher ability, Orange = middle ability & Green = lower ability.) Multiple grammar starting activities. High level vocabulary focus A wide variety of writing opportunities discussed (the children will have opportunity to write a webpage, job advert, formal letter, informal letter, diary entry, Newspaper article & a biography. A wide range of grammatical skills covered.