2 Week Writing Unit inspired by The Heart and the Bottle

This is a 2 week writing unit I created to link in with our Year 6 topic on the heart. We started the unit by looking at the abstract meaning of the heart and linked this to Oliver Jeffers’ beautiful book, The Heart and the Bottle. We considered how the heart can symbolise love and compassion, so this unit gives the children the opportunity to write for a real purpose. Children will write informal letters to a charity before moving onto to more formal, persuasive methods of writing to facilitate fundraising on behalf of a charity. This unit lead can lead into a wonderful fundraising project for the children to run.