This non-fiction unit looks at persuasion and argument. Children will read and evaluate texts intended to inform, protest, complain or persuade. In doing so, they will consider how the texts are set out and what language devices are used. They will notice the deliberate use of ambiguity, half-truth, bias; how opinion can be disguised to seem like fact; infer writers’ perspectives from what is written and from what is implied. Children will investigate the use of persuasive definitions, rhetorical questions, pandering and condescension. During the unit, children will write persuasive letters for real purposes, for example to put a point of view or comment on an emotive issue. The first two lessons focus on writing persuasively about environmental issues. The next two lessons look at formal and informal writing and at how to produce a balanced argument. In Lesson 5 the children will take part in a formal debate. The final lesson looks at a famous wartime speech by Winston Churchill. (This could be used separately during a history lesson.) Lesson 1: How big is your carbon footprint? • Evaluate texts intended to persuade. • Identify persuasive devices • Infer what is implied 2 Green letters• Know the features of a persuasive letter. 3 Exploring a controversial issue • To identify textual viewpoints – for, against and balanced. To explore the language and organisational features of texts presenting a specific argument/ point of view. 4 Comparing formal and informal texts • To identify and explore the features of formal and informal texts. • To listen for language variation in formal and informal contexts. • To employ the features and narrative techniques of formal and/or informal texts in their own writing 5 Establishing a viewpoint on a controversial issue • To participate in wholeclass debate using the conventions and language of debate, including Standard English. • To identify the ways spoken language varies according to differences in the context and purpose of its use. Analysing a famous speech • Listen to and understand a speech. • Recognise the use of repetition and emotive language. Leave a review

This non-fiction unit for Years 5 and 6 revisits the key features of recount texts. Analysing recounts drawn from a range of media, children identify common features and differences. They then go on to produce a plan, carry out interviews, collate and evaluate the information they have gathered and write an article or report. To give context to this work, it would be useful to arrange a visit from a local news reporter or a trip to a news office, if possible. The examples in these lessons are taken from ‘Beowulf’ and follow on from Fiction Unit 3. This unit could be used at any stage in Year 5. Lesson length This unit could take about three to four weeks. We have organised the unit’s content into seven lessons, each of which should take about an hour. Each lesson also has a set of extension activities for different abilities, as well as Hotspot! (Higher Order Thinking/Higher level questioning ) challenges. Lesson 1 Read all about it!• To identify the different features of a newspaper Beowulf ’s clash with Grendel – an impersonal recount • To write a recount of an event. 3 An interview with Wiglaf. • To recognise the key features of an interview use a range of open and closed questions to gather information from an eye-witness 4.‘We interrupt this programme for a newsflash…’ • To take useful notes and to ask open questions. • To explore individual’s motives through role play 5 Carefully chosen words.• To write a range of different kinds of sentences. 6 Here is the news • To organise and edit work and make improvements 7 The importance of good editing • To reflect critically on their own and other’s writing and to improve it. Leave a review

Taken from our Year 2 Literacy Resource File The focus is on following and producing explanatory texts. This unit is closely linked to the curriculum area of science and life cycles of plants. Children begin with an investigation into the seeds of various plants. This is followed by a reading phase about the life cycles of some of these plants. The children then link the texts with the appropriate diagrams and pull out some of the key language to help them make a glossary and understand how to write explanatory texts. Children are given the opportunity to look at more examples of explanatory texts before they begin the investigative study which they will finally write about. In groups, children follow instructions to grow potatoes. At each stage they are encouraged to observe and record the process and the results. They are encouraged to keep a diary of the investigation and to evaluate their own work as they go. At the end of the investigation, they are asked to review the process and finally to produce a presentation about the life cycle of the potato 1 What is it? • To promote interest in the topic. • To follow the stages in an explanatory text about the life cycle of a plant. • To understand what a glossary is. 2 Explanation language and features • To focus on the form and organisational features of explanatory texts. • To widen the concept of what topics explanatory texts deal with. 3 Let’s grow potatoes • To initiate an ongoing investigative study in order to develop and produce an explanatory text. • To read, understand and follow instructions. 4 Our potatoes• To conclude an ongoing investigative study in order to develop and produce an explanatory text. • To work collaboratively to produce a paragraph describing the end result of an investigation. • To share information 5 Presentations• To produce an explanatory text/ presentation. • To produce a suitable visual explanation of a process. • To use labels as an aid to visuals. Leave a review

Includes all stories An alternative version of the traditional fairytale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. This quite challenging text uses a range of alternative graphemes from Letters and Sounds Phase 5. The premise for this story is that our monster family would probably not have heard of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, a story with a bad wolf and a good child, but they may have a similar story which they tell their monster children, in which the monster is the good character and the villain is the child. Covering: Speaking and listening ● Help the children to draw a storyboard or story map to support a retelling of the story. ● Provide fabrics, blocks and smallworld resources to create a threedimensional story map. ● Use role play to tell the story from one point of view. To explore ideas for this, use drama techniques, such as ‘hot-seating’. ● Act out either the monster version of the story or the traditional version, using voices for the characters. Guided and shared reading: ● Use the story as a shared text. Support the children as they read words which contain alternative spellings for phonemes (see table, below). ● Compare and contrast this version with a traditional version of Red Riding Hood (see ‘Resources’, page 91). ● Traditional tales are some of the easiest texts to use when asking young children Assessment Focus 7 questions (Relate texts to social, cultural and historical contexts and literary traditions) as it is relatively easy to find simple retellings that the children can read independently. For example, you could ask: ● How did you know that the boy would do something bad? ● Did anything surprise you in this retelling of the story?

The purpose of this topic is to teach children to understand and say the days of the week. It is also to ensure that the children can respond to and ask the question ¿Qué día es hoy? Learning outcomes Children learn: to understand and use the vocabulary for the days of the week to ask and respond to the question ¿Qué día es hoy Includes: Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets

The purpose of this topic is to ensure that children can greet each other by responding and saying ¡Buenos días!, ¡Hola! and ¡Adiós! It is also to familiarise children with new sounds and to encourage them to speak and practise customs, even if they make mistakes, in order to gain confidence. Learning objectives Children learn: to say hello (distinguish between formal (¡Buenos días!) and informal (¡Hola!)) to say goodbye (¡Adiós!) greeting customs Includes: Lesson Plans and Activity Sheets Includes 5 Activities

In this first section, which contains a term’s work, the children will learn to introduce themselves in Spanish and to greet others. They will learn numbers 0–12 and some classroom objects. They will also begin to work on sounds and spellings, and use simple classroom instructions. Topic titles (6 Lessons) Greetings How are you? Introducing yourself Numbers 0–12 Classroom instructions Classroom objects Includes Lesson Plans, Subject Vocabulary and Activity Sheets

See the full Instructions unit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-english-literacy-instructions-unit-12330446 One lesson with plan and resources Good for introducing the topic of instructions WALT: Listen to instructions. • Follow instructions and give instructions on how to move. Focus on speaking and listening skills by getting the children to follow a chant. Leave a review

Sample one week lesson plans from LCP’s Phonics Planning 3rd Edition Day-by-Day Lesson Plans based on Letters and Sounds Please note: This is just the planning and does not come with the lesson’s resources. What is LCP Phonics Planning? It is not a phonics teaching scheme and I have assumed that your school already has such a scheme in place, for example, LCP Phonics. There are many other commercially produced schemes available. LCP Phonics Planning is a planning tool for teachers who are teaching phonics using the Letters and Sounds document from the DfE. It is a guide and should be used with flexibility and at a pace which is appropriate to each group or class. Objectives and criteria for success: Teach new graphemes for reading (p134) ay ou ie. Teach the rules for spelling words containing these digraphs. (Appendix 6). Teach reading the tricky word people (p140) and decodable words house, about (p141). Teach reading and spelling compound words. (Appendix 7). Practise reading and spelling high frequency words (p141/p148). Leave a review

The purpose of this topic is for children to learn vocabulary to describe the colour of items. Learning outcomes Children learn: to say the correct word for the colour in response to the question ¿De qué color es?, e.g. Es azul. to use short phrases to express personal responses and preferences: me gusta el rojo, no me gusta el amarillo. to use correct intonation to indicate they are asking a question to show they understand nouns used with colours to show they understand simple commands, e.g. ¡Buscad! to listen carefully in order to discriminate sounds and identify meaning to show they understand familiar statements to begin to show understanding of syntactic structure in languages, e.g. position of adjectives in Spanish in relation to English adjective position, e.g. un bolígrafo azul – a blue pen Resources: Includes Lesson plan and Activity Sheets

The purpose of this topic is for children to identify members of their family, to respond to questions and to write short phrases correctly with support. Learning objective Children learn: to introduce members of the family Learning outcomes Children learn: to identify correctly names for members of the family to understand and say whether or not they have brothers or sisters to respond with Se llama… when asked someone’s name to understand that el is masculine and la is feminine to role-play members of own, imaginary or famous family to copy familiar short phrases correctly to name and describe people to use visual clues to produce short phrases using mainly memorised language Includes: Lesson Plans, Vocabulary and Lesson Activities

The purpose of this topic is to ensure that the children can say what nationality they are, ask the question of others and say what language they (and others) speak. Learning objective Children learn: to describe their nationality and the languages they speak Learning outcomes Children learn: to describe their nationality and ask others the same question, for example Soy inglés/inglesa to say what languages they speak, for example Hablo inglés y español Includes: Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets

Invaders and settlers The purpose of this lesson is: to establish that the Anglo-Saxons both invaded and settled in Britain. Children should learn: • to use the terms ‘invade’ and ‘settle’; • to place the Anglo-Saxon period in a chronological framework. Class objective: • to discover the difference between invaders and settlers. Learning Outcomes Children should be able to: • use a dictionary to find the meanings of the words ‘invade’ and ‘settle’; • sort words or phrases correctly under the headings ‘invade’ and ‘settle’; • locate the Anglo-Saxon period on a time line; • discuss ideas associated with invasion and settlement. Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets See full unit available on TES

The purpose of this topic is for children to say what the weather is like, using a few simple phrases. Learning objective Children learn: to describe the weather, using a few simple phrases Learning outcomes Children learn: to respond to the question ¿Qué tiempo hace? using short phrases, e.g. hace buen/mal tiempo; hace calor/frío to name and describe the weather in various places, e.g. en Alicante hace calor to write the phrases so they can describe the weather correctly Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets

In this section, the children will learn to say their age and where they live. They will learn the numbers 13–21, the days of the week, some phrases about the weather and the Spanish alphabet. This is a 7 week unit of work Includes: Medium Term Plan, Individual Lesson Plans, Lesson Activities **Topic titles How old are you?** The purpose of this topic is for children to know how to say how old they are and to ask others their age 2. Where do you live? The purpose of this topic is to teach and ensure that children can respond to the question ¿Dónde vives? Children should also be able to ask others the same question and to understand the response. 3. Nationalities The purpose of this topic is to ensure that the children can say what nationality they are, ask the question of others and say what language they (and others) speak. 4. Numbers 13–21 The purpose of this topic is to ensure that children can count to 21 in Spanish 5. Days of the week The purpose of this topic is to teach children to understand and say the days of the week. It is also to ensure that the children can respond to and ask the question ¿Qué día es hoy? 6. The weather The purpose of this topic is for children to say what the weather is like, using a few simple phrases. 7. The Spanish alphabet The purpose of this topic is for children to learn the Spanish pronunciation and sounds of the alphabet that will aid accurate pronunciation and the spelling of simple words.

In this unit, children are introduced to the idea that people from other societies have been coming to settle in Britain for a long time. Children find out about what was discovered at Sutton Hoo. By investigating the finds, children learn about the work of archaeologists and about the culture and way of life of Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain. Lesson 1 On the move The purpose of this lesson is to consider why people move away from where they were born. Lesson 2 Invaders and settlers The purpose of this lesson is: to establish that the Anglo-Saxons both invaded and settled in Britain. Lesson 3 Where did they come from and where did they go? The purpose of this lesson is: to develop a clear understanding of where the Anglo-Saxons came from and where they settled. Lesson 4 Archaeology The purpose of this lesson is: to develop an understanding of archaeology and archaeological evidence. Lesson 5 Sutton Hoo The purpose of this lesson is:to find out how the ship burial at Sutton Hoo was discovered and what sort of objects were found. Lesson 6 The Sutton Hoo treasure The purpose of this lesson is: look in detail at some of the Sutton Hoo finds. Lesson 7 Sutton Hoo drama The purpose of this lesson is: to consolidate learning about the Sutton Hoo ship burial. Lesson 8 Everyday Anglo-Saxon life The purpose of this lesson is: to research and record information about the everyday life of Anglo-Saxons. Lesson 9 Presenting everyday Anglo-Saxon life The purpose of this lesson is: for children to present the information they have researched about the everyday life of Anglo-Saxons. Lesson 10 Anglo-Saxon writing The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate different types of writing in Anglo-Saxon times. Lesson 11 Riddles and stories The purpose of this lesson is:to look at the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition with reference to Anglo-Saxon riddles and the Beowulf story. Lesson 12 Visit to an Anglo-Saxon site The purpose of this lesson is: to visit a location that will provide evidence of Anglo-Saxon life.*

Lesson plan and Lesson Activity Sheets Where did they come from and where did they go? The purpose of this lesson is: to develop a clear understanding of where the Anglo-Saxons came from and where they settled. Learning Objectives Children should learn: • about the Anglo-Saxon homelands; • where the Anglo-Saxons settled when they came. Class objective: • to find out about where the Anglo-Saxons came from and where they settled. Learning Outcomes Children should be able to: • locate the Anglo-Saxon homelands on a map; • identify Anglo-Saxon settlements on a modern map. Full Unit available on TES or on our website

The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate who the Romans were, and why they came to Britain. Children should learn: • to select and record information about Roman ways of life; • about aspects of life in Roman Britain, using a variety of sources. Class objective: to find out who the Romans were, and why they came to Britain. Children should be able to: • select relevant information from a number of sources; • record relevant information about the Roman way of life. Includes Lesson Plan and Activity Sheets

Full Unit of work In this unit, children are introuduced to the idea that people from other societies have been coming to settle in Britain for a long time. They consider the effects of the invasion and settlement of the Romans on Britain. There is emphasis on historical enquiry, using artefacts and Roman sites and interpretations of his This unit Includes: Introduction Medium-Term Plan Preparatory information Timeline Lesson 1 On the move The purpose of this lesson is: to consider why people move away from where they were born. Lesson 2 Invaders and settlers The purpose of this lesson is: to establish that the Romans invaded and settled in Britain Lesson 3 Who were the Celts? The purpose of this lesson is: for the children to develop a clear understanding of who the Celtic people were. Lesson 4 The Romans The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate who the Romans were, and why they came to Britain. Lesson 5 The Roman Army in Britain The purpose of this lesson is: to find out about the Roman Army and how it involved in the occupation of Britain Lesson 6 Roman battle formations The purpose of this lesson is: to familiarize children with Roman Army drill. Lesson 7 Who was Boudicca? The purpose of this lesson is: to establish who Boudicca was and why she was important. Lesson 8 The revolt of the Iceni The purpose of this lesson is:to learn what happened in AD 60 and about the short- and long-term results of Boudicca’s revolt. Lesson 9 Life in a Roman home The purpose of this lesson is: to investigate Roman domestic life Lesson 10 Life in Roman Britain The purpose of this lesson is: to further investigate life in Roman Britain. Lesson 11 Visit to a Roman site The purpose of this lesson is: to visit a Roman site Lesson 12 Roman festival The purpose of this lesson is: to consolidate the learning in this unit.

Who were the Celts? Learning objectives Learning outcomes The purpose of this lesson is: for the children to develop a clear understanding of who the Celtic people were. Children should learn: • to select and record information about Celtic ways of life; • about aspects of life in Celtic Britain, using a variety of sources. Class objective: • to find out about the Celts Children should be able to: • select relevant information from a number of sources; • record relevant information about the Celtic way of life Includes Lessons Plan and resources for activities