Escape from Pompeii Week 1 Year 3/4

UPDATED!

Week 1 of 2 weeks Reading and English unit based on Christina Balit’s, ‘Escape From Pompeii’.

Week 1: Setting descriptions
Week 2: Narrative writing

Reading
2 x Demonstration comprehension lessons (30 mins)
Planning and writing models given
1 x Independent comprehension lesson (30 mins)

Children complete the tasks in their English books, planning and writing before the English tasks.

English
4 x English lessons
* Monday - Planning day, gathering ideas for Pompeii before the eruption
* Wednesday - Guided write, setting description
* Thursday - Planning day, after the eruption, independent task
* Friday - Independent write, setting description
3x Grammar starter activities.
* Grammar focus - subordinating conjunctions and clauses.

Detailed Smart Notebook slides included and also uploaded in PowerPoint form (66 slides). I have exported it in ppt so it may not look quite the same with fonts and images so made need some rectifying to make it look the same.

Vocabulary book available - 30 high-order words from the book with word type, definition, synonyms, evidence from the book.

All resources and model writes included.

This resource is an updated version of my 2 week plan which was uploaded last year. There are some similarities in the planning, however, changes were made due to using Jane Considine’s ‘Hooked on Books’ approach to Reading and loosely using ‘The Write Stuff’ to plan and write using the lenses.

Suitable for Years 3 and 4.

Used book to go with Earthquakes and Volcanoes topic.

Week 2 planning and resources:

Vocabulary book:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12648516