Literacy Teaching Resource: PREVIEW - Balanced Argument - Should the Vikings have invaded England? (4 day Overview and Activities) This teaching resource uses the text genre balanced arguments to discuss whether or not the Vikings should have invaded England in easy to follow way. Students are taught to learn actions for conjunctions, know the difference of open and closed questions, take part in a hot-seating activity and identify features of a balanced argument. There are also SPaG starter activities mainly aimed at year 6 objectives. This is the first week of imitation following Pie Corbitt's sequence of work. It contains a 4 day overview with a 27 slide SMART Notebook presentation all activities including independent activities. If you like this resource, check out the complete unit of work which continues the complete teaching sequence of imitation, innovation and invention.

Guided Reading: PREVIEW - Year 4 - Beowulf (5 day SMART Notebook Slides and Activities) This guided reading teaching resource uses three differentiated texts of Beowulf to teach in an easy to follow way. Students are guided through reading comprehension that uses questions from different strands of reading comprehension. Group A is the higher ability children leading through to group E. Monday's lesson requires group E to follow the Scholastic reading comprehension Year 4 (ISBN-10: 1407100521 / ISBN-13: 978-1407100524) programme of work to help develop individual skills. This is easy to change if you chose not to follow this programme Books you will need are: Higher Ability - Michael Morpurgo - Beowulf (ISBN-10: 1406348872 / ISBN-13: 978-1406348873) Middle Ability - Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Myths and Legends: Level 15: Beowulf, Grendel And The Dragon (ISBN-10: 0198446349 / ISBN-13: 9780198446347) Lower Ability - Beowulf (Young Reading (Series 3) (ISBN-10: 0746096860 / ISBN-13: 978-0746096864) If you like this resource, check out the complete unit of work which continues the complete teaching sequence of all three books.