I created and used this planning with a mixed ability year 5 class. The children thoroughly enjoyed the book and wrote brilliant work from it. Within these series of lessons, the children will practise using skills such as: semi colons, relative clauses, noun phrases, expanded noun phrases, conjunctions, fronted adverbials, adverbial phrases, adverbs, a range of sentence structures, superlatives & speech. Hidden Figures is a fantastic book to discuss the issue of racism and include black history across the curriculum. Hidden figures is also perfect for the topic of space as the inspirational women discussed in this book all worked in NACA and/or NASA. Included: 19 English lessons. Learning questions. Smart notebook slides. Almost all lessons are differentiated 3 ways. (Blue = higher ability, Orange = middle ability & Green = lower ability.) Multiple grammar starting activities. High level vocabulary focus A wide variety of writing opportunities discussed (the children will have opportunity to write a webpage, job advert, formal letter, informal letter, diary entry, Newspaper article & a biography. A wide range of grammatical skills covered.

I created and used this planning with a mixed ability year 5 class. The children thoroughly enjoyed Street child and wrote brilliant work from it. Within these series of lessons, the children will practise using skills such as: relative clauses, noun phrases, expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials, adverbial phrases, adverbs, a range of sentence structures, modified noun phrases, informal language, formal language, apostrophes & parenthesis. Street Child is a fantastic book which is excellent for children to compare life today to the Victorian era. Included: *9 English lessons. *Learning questions. *Smart notebook slides. *Almost all lessons are differentiated 3 ways. (Blue = higher ability, Orange = middle ability & Green = lower ability.) *Multiple grammar starting activities. *High level vocabulary focus *A wide variety of writing opportunities discussed (the children will have opportunity to write a informal letter, a descriptive recount & a formal letter. *A wide range of grammatical skills covered. Lesson 1 - Vocabulary Lesson Lesson 2 - Sentence Level Work Lesson 3 - First Person Recount Lesson 4 - Relative Clauses Lesson 5 - Planning A Letter Lesson 6 - Formal Letter Writing Lesson 7 - Using informal features Lesson 8 - Using Parenthesis Lesson 9 - Assessment - Writing an Informal letter

I created and used this planning with a mixed ability year 5 class. The children thoroughly enjoyed King Kong and wrote a brilliant newspaper report from it. Within these series of lessons, the children will practise using skills such as: relative clauses, simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, noun phrases, fronted adverbials, adverbial phrases, adverbs, a range of sentence structures, formal language, semi colons, alliteration & speech . Included: *15 English lessons. *Learning questions. *Smart notebook slides. *Almost all lessons are differentiated 3 ways. (Blue = higher ability, Orange = middle ability & Green = lower ability.) *Multiple grammar starting activities. *High level vocabulary focus *A wide range of grammatical skills covered. Lesson 1 - Basic Punctuation Lesson 2 - Semi Colons Lesson 3 - Relative Clauses Lesson 4 - Meaning of Words (vocab lesson) Lesson 5 - Features of a Newspaper Lesson 6 - Headlines and Captions Lesson 7 - Fact & Figures - simpe, compound & complex sentences. Lesson 8 - News Interview Lesson 9 - Using Speech Lesson 10 - Introduction Lesson 11 - Main Report Part 1 & 2 Lesson 12 - Part 3 Lesson 13 - Conclusion Lesson 14 & 15 - Assessment write/ Newspaper write up

Most lessons are differentiated 3 ways. We read 3 pages of book per each lesson. Feel free to read the book to the class before teaching. Blue = HA Orange = MA Green = LA Lesson 1 - Relative clauses and contrasting conjunctions. Lesson 2 - Adverbials and tag questions. Lesson 3 - Parenthesis and dashes Lesson 4 - Letter Writing assessment Lesson 5 - Diary Entry Lesson 6 - noun phrases - nouns of nouns Lesson 7 - Monologue writing Lesson 8 - Obituary Anne Frank Lesson 9 - The betrayal diary entry Lesson 10 - Obituary planning lesson Lesson 11 - Otto Frank assessment write (carry out some research beforehand).