Written for Year 4 but could easily been used for Year 5. Written as a Talk Story following Talk For Writing. Story type: Tale of Fear Focus: Characterisation

A complete unit of work. Includes: Powerpoint presentation Additional sheets that are needed for some lessons. A persuasive speech model text based on Running on the Roof of the World by Jess Butterworth. The speech is about persuading the Dalai Lama to return with them and help their village. This unit builds up to the children writing and performing their own speeches. They look at the skills needed to write a persuasive speech and the oracy skills of how to deliver a persuasive speech. Toolkit: Power of 3 Rhetorical questions Humanising Conditional sentences Emotive language Structure of 18 lessons: Learning the model text/ text map Vocab and structure (boxing up) Learning and identifying the persuasive tools/ toolkit Short burst skill lesson: Humanising Short burst skill lesson: Emotive language Short burst skill lesson: conditional sentences Learning and identifying the oracy tools/ toolkit Plan their own speech Opening paragraph Overall theme paragraph First point paragraph Second point paragraph Concluding paragraph Editing the written speech Converting speech into note form Creating cue cards Last 2+ lessons = children deliver their speeches.

A model text used in Year 5 for defeating the villain. T4W ‘defeating the villain’ toolkit applied with Year 5 spelling rules and statutory spellings included.