2 week literacy setting desciption writing unit WAGOLL Modelled slides Edit lesson Publish lesson Hook lesson Success criteria Lesson 1 Understand how an author can effectively describe a setting Lesson 2 -Use show not tell to effectively describe a setting Lesson 3 -Use figurative language within parenthesis and fronted adverbials Lesson 4 -Plan my setting description Lesson 5 Write my first two paragraphs for the setting description Lesson 6 Write my third and fourth paragraph for the setting description Lesson 7 -Edit my writing Lesson 8 -Publish my writing

Week 1 Wolves in the walls pack Includes: Teaching slides Resources Can be differentiated for B squared and lower KS2. Lesson 1: Make inferences from the Wolves in the walls Prediction based on the book cover and images from the text Role play activities with image prompts Lesson 2: Analyse a descriptive piece of writing WAGOLL included With the following success critieria: Success criteria for Descriptive writing ​​ Powerful adjectives Expanded noun phrases Fronted adverbials Different conjunctions Present tense Paragraphs Statements, exclamations and questions Lesson 3: Write sentences that include statements, explanations and questions Teaching input for each one plus whiteboard work Followed by a quiz Followed by task Lesson 4: Research Wolves for creative writing Research based lesson to aid their writing Lesson 5: Writing sentences about the 5 senses that include nouns Worksheet that aids this lesson for descriptive writing

Based on “The lighthouse keeper” animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo Newspaper report plan: 5 day lesson plan aimed at writing a newspaper report based on the incident. Aimed at upper Key stage 2 but could be differentiated for year 3 and 4.

Overview of the Unit: Lesson 1: Engage Through Drama Kick off the unit with playscripts and hot seating to spark interest and immerse pupils in the Viking topic. Lessons 2–4: Master Relative and Embedded Clauses Build technical skills by focusing on relative clauses and embedded clauses using dashes. Scaffolded tasks include identifying, practicing, and applying these skills to descriptive paragraphs about the Vikings. Lesson 5: Expanded Noun Phrases and Prepositional Phrases Teach pupils to add detail and precision to their writing by crafting vivid sentences about Viking roles and lifestyle. Lesson 6: Ad Same Ad Sentence Structure Introduce Allan Peat’s Ad Same Ad sentences to help students create impactful, descriptive sentences. Lesson 7: Describing Viking Clothing Apply learned skills to describe Viking clothing and settlements, blending expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and Ad Same Ad sentences. Lessons 8–10: Using Formal Language Guide students to write formally, using generalizers and precise vocabulary, while practicing formal sentence construction. Lesson 9: Plan the Report Pupils organize their ideas under clear subheadings, ensuring all features—relative clauses, formal language, expanded phrases—are included. Lessons 10–12: Writing the Non-Chronological Report Over three lessons, pupils draft their reports, working to different ability levels with sentence starters, scaffolds, and modeled examples. Lesson 13: Publish with Style Pupils polish their work, adding illustrations and neat formatting to create a final report ready for display or assessment. Key Features: Fully differentiated tasks to support lower ability, age-related, and greater depth learners. Focus on grammar skills: relative clauses, embedded clauses, expanded noun phrases, and formal language. Engaging activities including hot seating, sentence crafting, and publishing with illustrations. Scaffolds, WAGOLLs, and success criteria provided for every step. Perfect for cross-curricular links with history or thematic units on the Vikings. Why Teachers Love It: Saves time with ready-to-teach lesson plans and resources. Encourages creativity alongside rigorous grammar skills. Supports writing progression with clear success criteria and scaffolded tasks. Engages learners with a high-interest topic and varied teaching methods. What’s Included: 13 detailed lesson plans with objectives, activities, and differentiation. WAGOLL examples for each skill. Printable planning templates, worksheets, and success criteria. Editable resources for tailoring to your class.

Year 5,6 Guided reading and English planning Based on the jungle book Researching Rudyard Kipling Making inferences of characters from the text Making predictions based on what I have read Understanding playscripts Creating dialogue for characters in a narrative

Pages 1-18 5 lessons Word meaning Retrieval Inference Explanation First two lessons are based on a short biography

Two lessons Word meaning Retrieval Can be adapted for year 3-Year 6 Text included with strategies on teaching slides

Lesson 1: Prediction based on front cover, reviews and blurb Read the prologue Lesson 2: Word meaning lesson based on the prologue Lesson 3: Retrieval lesson based on the prologue

Writing unit based on making a set of instructions on training a dragon: Lesson 4: Understanding complex sentences Lesson 5: Using imperative verbs with adverbs Lesson 6: Using time adverbials Lesson 7: Writing an introduction using compound and complex sentences Lesson 8: Writing the first part of the instructions

Week 1 of planning based on how to train your dragon. Final piece is a set of instructions based on year 5 expectations. Lesson 1: Understanding the context of How to train a dragon In depth analysis of the author Characters Dragons Lesson 2: Understanding the features of instructions Brackets Compound and complex sentences Numbered instructions Engage the reader Imperative (bossy) verbs WAGOLL based on training a Sleipnir (8 legged Viking horse) Uses all the features and follows the same structure of the final piece Lesson 3: Understanding compound and simple sentences Gives definitions of simple sentences Gives definitions of compound sentences Insert the coordinating conjunction in the missing gap Writing compound sentences based on a stimulus linked to “How to train your dragon”

Visual line graph to plot a characters feelings.

Week 2 teaching slides: Lesson 1: Using expanded noun phrases Lesson 2: Using expanded noun phrases in my writing Lesson 3: Edit and uplevel Lesson 4: Using subordinating conjunctions in my writing Lesson 5: Writing sentences that use speech (includes quizes)

Planning template for a William Shakespeare plan Chronological events that infroms the planning of the biography

Identifying the 5 w’s based on an exrtract from a newspaper report. Children must identify if the paragraph has the 5 w’s in the text. If it does they tick the box. Then they must write down the example that they identified.

Planning for writing a biography on Earnest Shackleton

Writing mat for the Anglo Saxon Boy based on the part where Magnus reaches the Viking

Visual verb word mat