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Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry
Plan 1A: Classic fiction Required texts: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling Description: Chn explore the charm and challenge of classic fiction. Chn write a modern-day Jungle Book story, Just So Stories diary entries, and tell outrageous lies, courtesy of conjunctions. The unit ends with chn performing their own Just So Story in Kipling's style.
Grammar focus: 1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using a range of conjunctions to create compound and complex sentences. 2. Use relative clauses. 3. Use commas correctly, including to clarify meaning, avoid ambiguity and to indicate parenthesis. 4. Use correct punctuation to indicate speech.
Plan 1A: Recounts Required texts: UFOs and Aliens: Investigating Extraterrestrial Visitors – Extreme! by Paul Mason UFO Diary by Satoshi Kitamura
Description: Using the context of UFOs, chn explore recounts: investigating genuine documents; discussing famous sightings & researching notorious hoaxes. Chn write a diary entry and create their own hoax UFO photo and report. A presentation to parents completes the unit.
Grammar focus: 1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using adverbials of time, space and number 2. Use commas correctly, including to clarify meaning, avoid ambiguity and to indicate parenthesis. 3. Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
Plan 1A: Slam poetry Required texts: You wait till I’m older than you by Michael Rosen The Works and Read Me collections A variety of poems provided
Description: Study a slam poem (a form of performance poetry) & other poems about what to do when you grow up. Chn write an extra verse about their dreams. Use poems about not knowing what to write to stimulate writing about everyday little things. Hold a poetry slam!
Grammar focus: 1. Recognise vocabulary and structures appropriate for formal and written speech, and the differences between this and spoken speech, including the use of contractions. 2. Use correct punctuation to indicate speech.
Plan 2A: Biographies and autobiographies Required texts: Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl Singing for Mrs Pettigrew/Homecoming by Michael Morpurgo Various biographies of two authors
Description: Use biographies of Roald Dahl & Michael Morpurgo (both books & online) & their autobiographical writing to identify features of biographies & autobiographies. Use the texts to study dialogue, noun phrases & complex sentences. Write autobiographies online.
Grammar focus: 1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using a range of conjunctions to create compound and complex sentences.
Plan 2A: Instructions & Explanations Required texts: Examples of instructional and explanation text are provided
Description: Hover boards and Doggie Umbrellas meet new-fangled escalators and dial telephones in a unit, which explores instructions and explanations in the context of changing technology. Chn try pitching in the Dragon's Den and create guides for futuristic travel.
Grammar focus: 1. Use brackets, dashes and commas to indicate parenthesis. 2. Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between main causes 3. Use colons to introduce lists
Plan 2A: Classic poems Required texts: The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
Description: Carroll’s Walrus and the Carpenter stimulate performance, discussion and persuasive writing, in this poetry unit. Belloc's Cautionary Tales provide cause for debate and the chn end the unit writing their own modern day cautionary poems.
Grammar focus: 1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using and choosing descriptive language; adjectives, adverbs and powerful nouns and verbs. 2. Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
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2. Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
4. Punctuate bullet points consistently 3. Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity
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Plan 3A: Genre fiction Required texts: Short by Kevin Crossley Holland
Description: Look at the genre of short stories using Short! by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Chn investigate the use of adverbials to link sentences or paragraphs together. Chn plan & write short mystery stories elaborating by use of descriptive words & further details.
Grammar focus: 1. Adverbials of time, place and number. 2. Use elaborated language of description, including expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbials and a variety of subordinate clauses, including relative clauses. 3. Use semi-colons to mark boundary between independent clauses.
Plan 3A: Argument and debate Required texts: Arguments for and against use of CCTV cameras (provided)
Description: Identify features of argument texts & discuss differences between facts & opinions. Find out how to present opinions as if they were facts. Study formal & informal speech. Research for & hold a class debate. Chn then write & edit their own argument text.
Grammar focus: 1. Formal and informal speech and writing. Use of subjunctive forms. 2. Use bullet points, colons and semi-colons.
Plan 3A: Classic narrative and oral poetry Required texts: The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
Description: Chn learn the classic narrative poem Ballad of Charlotte Dymond to recite & identify features. Use role play to study the characters in depth. Compare with Lochinvar & explore relative clauses. Then use Chocolate Cake to inspire their narrative poems.
Grammar focus: 1. Use commas to clarify meaning. 2. Use elaborated language of description, including expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbial and a variety of subordinate clauses, including relative clauses.
Plan 4A: Drama (Shakespeare) Required texts: Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays by Marcia Williams
Description: Introduce chn to Shakespeare using Marcia Williams’ Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays – Romeo & Juliet + Macbeth. Investigate diff ways of writing dialogue inc. playscript layout & the use of informal language. Chn write a 60 sec version of part of Macbeth.
Grammar focus: 1. Use dialogue, differences between spoken and written speech. Punctuation to indicate direct speech.
Plan 4A: Reports and Journalistic Writing Required texts: Tuesday by David Wiesner
Description: Use Tuesday by David Wiesner to study report writing. Look at different ways of writing speech – playscripts, speech bubbles, direct & reported speech. Compare formal & informal writing including use of passive voice. Chn write newspaper reports.
Grammar focus: 1. Dialogue, direct/indirect speech punctuation. Reported speech.
Plan 4A: Poetic Style Required texts: You Wait Till I’m Older Than You by Michael Rosen Collected Poems by Roger McGough
Description: Chn hear & respond to a range of poems from two well-known poets. Explore the use of language & how the writers imply deeper meanings & research the poets on the internet. Finally chn write their own free-verse poems inspired by those they have read.
Grammar focus: 1. Dialogue, direct speech punctuation.
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2. Formal and informal speech and writing. Use of subjunctive forms. 3. Use commas to clarify meaning.
2. Use of passive form to present information. 3. Use semi-colons and dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses. 4. Use commas to clarify meaning.
2. Use commas to clarify meaning. 3. Use and understand grammatical terminology. .
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Plan 5A: Classic novels Required texts: The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, (Graphic novel) illustrated by David Wenzel, adapted by Charles Dixon (2006) Description: Through The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, investigate settings, character development, dialogue & narrative style. Writing includes: dramatisation, playing with point-of-view & writing a 'Lost Tale'. Grammar includes: complex sentences, relative clauses and elaboration.
Grammar focus: 1. Writing complex and compound sentences 2. Use elaborated language of description, including expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbials and, particularly, relative clauses. 3. Use accurate sentence and speech punctuation.
Plan 5A: Persuasive writing Required texts: Various persuasive texts (provided)
Description: Times are a changin' as chn explore how to win hearts & minds. Chn analyse adverts and political speeches, adapt protest songs and manipulate with modal verbs. Chn write persuasively & the unit ends in a political rally. Who will win: parents or chn?
Grammar focus: 1. Understand and use modal verbs in persuasive writing 2. Use apostrophes correctly. 3. Use correct sentence punctuation.
Plan 5A: Debate poetry and poetry that tells a story Useful texts: The Dispute of Coffee and Tea Hamilton Group Readers Sensational! poems inspired by the five senses chosen by Roger McGough, Macmillan,
Description: Read a Gulf ‘debate’ poem about a fierce dispute between coffee & tea. Identify features of poems that tell a story. Chn read & compare other poems about drinks. They create & perform a playscript for the dispute, then write a poem about a drink.
Grammar focus: 1. Use elaborated descriptive language. 2. Use expanded noun phrases. 3. Use and understand grammatical terminology.
Plan 6A: Genre fiction – science fiction Required texts: Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan, Templar Publishing.
Description: Chn read and analyse a selection of short stories from
Plan 6A: Non-chronological Reports Required texts: Various reports (provided)
Description: Use texts about iPads & iPhones to introduce features of non-chronological reports. Chn create a new section
Plan 6A: Power of Imagery Required texts: The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy (Animated Tale – see resources)
Description: Using a range of sea poems (provided) & The
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Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. They explore the structure of short stories & the use of modal verbs & dialogue. Chn write a drama based on one they have heard & then a new story in the Shaun Tan-style.
Grammar focus: 1. Use dialogue, recognise differences between spoken and written speech. 2. Use speech punctuation to indicate direct speech. 2. Understand and use modal verbs.
for a BBC online activity about reports using BOS/ QuAD techniques. Then chn research information about another electronic device & write reports.
Grammar focus: 1. Begin to understand the use of active and passive verbs, especially the use of the passive form in reports. 2. Recognise and use a past participle. 3. Use semi-colons, colons and dashes appropriately in reports. 4. Use bullet points in reports.
Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy, explore the use of imagery & description. Then discuss how to use language to evoke feelings & produce impressions. Chn draft & write their own poem about the Titanic.
Grammar focus: 1. Use fronted adverbials and non-finite verbs to start a sentence. 2. Use commas after fronted adverbials 3. Use elaborated description, including adjectives and adverbs, and subordinate clauses.
Year 5 and 6 - subject to change
See below for Year 6:
Year 6 Literacy Units – linked to Hamilton Trust (HT)
Narrative Detective/Crime
A Fiction 3 (HT)
Science Fiction
A Fiction 6 (HT)
Classic Fiction
A Fiction 1 –
Flashbacks/time
shift
Novel as a theme
B Fiction 2
Classic (HT)
Non-
Fiction
Persuasion
A Non-fiction 5 (HT)
Explanation text
A Non-fiction 2 (HT)
Discussion
Recount
Biography and
Autobiography
A Fiction 2 and non-fiction (HT)
Information text
hybrid
A Non-fiction 6 (HT)
Poetry Poems free verse
A Poetry 4 (HT)
Classic narrative poetry
B Poetry 2 (HT)
Poems with imagery
A Poetry 5 Debate (HT)