This unit of work involves 10 lessons that are creative and go into depth in inferring from the text. This is a creative unit if work which requires less writing and more hands-on, illustrative work. It mostly follows the plan from the CPLE Power of Reading planning for this book. It is a good unit of work to do when returning to school from a holiday break.
PHYSICAL BOOK NOT NEEDED. A virtual copy of the book is inserted in the Powerpoint
Lesson 1 - Respond to illustrations
Lesson 2 - Understand how illustrations and text create mood
Lesson 3 - Explore and illustrate a character
Lesson 4 - Write a poem about a lion
Lesson 5 - Illustrate a page in the book
Lesson 6 - Explore events and characters’ thoughts
Lesson 7 - Reflect on how characters are feeling
Lesson 8 - Write a diary as a character
Lesson 9 - Analyse impactful words
Lesson 10 - Communicate a mesage
All lessons are saved into one PowerPoint for efficient downloading.
Each lesson is clearly stated in the Powerpoint.
The book can be accessed online via Youtube.
#howtobealion #edvere #cple #powerofreading #ks1 #ks2 #year1 #year2 #year3 #year4 #writing #english #unit
This is a unit of work that part follows CPLE Power of Reading planning.
Week 1: Power of reading
Week 2: Writing cycle (a structured approach that builds children up for a large piece of writing, including learning a new SPAG skill and applying it to writing)
Week 3: Power of reading
Week 4: Writing cycle.
Power of reading inspired work includes a range of creative and engaging lessons to get children interested and enjoying the story.
There are 12 full lessons but this can be extended into 16 lessons (see below).
Here are the learning objectives of each lesson:
Lesson 1: Make inferences about a character (intro to the book and discussion of characters)
Lesson 2: Respond to an illustration (children create their own treasure map similar to in the story)
Lesson 3: Sequence events in a story and make predictions
Lesson 4: Use commas when writing lists (this will be applied to writing instructions)
Lesson 5: Plan instructions (WAGOLL of set of instructions included and planning sheet)
Lesson 6: Write instructions (WAGOLL of set of instructions included)
Lesson 7: Visualise a character from the story (children create their own sea-monster like in the story)
Lesson 8: Visualise a character and a setting from the story (children cut out their sea monster and place onto a setting they have designed to create a page for the story in the book)
Lesson 9: Gather descriptive vocabulary (based on their sea creature and setting designs)
Lesson 10: Use an apostrophe for contraction (this will be applied to diary writing)
Lesson 11: Plan a diary entry (WAGOLL and planning sheet included)
Lesson 12: Write a diary entry (WAGOLL included)
2 more lessons can easily be added after Lesson 6. This can be a lesson on editing their writing and then publishing their work. 2 more lessons can be added after lesson 12 for editing and publishing.
The book is available online on Youtube so the physical book is not necessarily needed in order to follow this planning.
Lesson slides are well thought-out and include slides on key vocabulary, SPAG starters, spelling practice opportunities and now/next/last slides.
#ks1 #unitofplanning #unitofwork #english #englishunit #howtofindgold #cple #powerofreading #vivianeschwarz #year2 #spag #writing #reading #instructionwriting #diarywriting