This resource includes: A grammar lesson (Recognising your target audience). A deconstruction of a travel brochure: Including a WAGOLL with key features. A lesson on rule of three and hyperbole. A lesson on anecdotes and emotive language. A lesson supporting distinguishing the difference between verbs, nouns and their spellings. Each lesson has a starter task which targets deconstruction and recognising key language. Each lesson has a challenge and dive deeper suitable to our topic.

Y6 is coming to a close shortly therefore we decided to let them choose their own topic to discuss. Each activity they will have completed their own indepedent research for. Week two of publishing has much shorter lessons due to Ramadan and the children’s fasting schedule. WEEK ONE: Lesson one: Understand the difference between Standard and non-standard English and when it is appropriate to use them. Lesson two: Deconstruct a balanced argument, identify its key features and their purpose. [Full credit to balanced debate WAGOLL Site where I found this WAGOLL and updated it myself]. Lesson three: Use facts and statistics appropriately to support our argument. Lesson four: Use modal verbs and adverbs appropriately to persuade the reader to support our perspective. Lesson five: Use our prior knowledge to spell a range of words with different rules. (Test style questions). WEEK TWO: Lesson six: Plan our balanced argument. Lesson seven: Draft our balanced argument. Lesson eight: Edit our balanced argument using peer assessment. Lesson nine: Publish our balanced argument. Lesson ten: Use our prior knowledge to spell a range of words with different rules. (Test style questions).

What a good one looks like (WAGOLL).

Grammar Lesson: Link paragraphs together using a range of adverbials and elements of repetition. Writing Lesson (1) : Undermine opposing views. Writing Lesson (2) Draft our travel brochure. Writing Lesson (3) Edit our travel brochure. Writing Lesson (4) Publish our travel brochure.

Lesson one: Read a text aloud focusing on intonation and fluency whilst asking questions to improve their understanding. Lesson two: Retrieve, record and present information from a non-fiction text. Lesson three:Summarise the main ideas of a text. Lesson four:Identifying and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing. This unit includes differentiated sheets for LA learners.

What a good one looks like (WAGOLL) What a good one looks like, with pictures. (WAGOLL). Comic strip of main events. Vocabulary list with meanings.

Focusing on: Show not tell, dialogue, metaphors and past tense.

A Donkey in Corfu broken down into question styles.

2013 - Level 6 SATS paper broken down to support the kids.

Lesson one: Fluency Focus. Read a text aloud focusing on intonation and fluency whilst asking questions to improve their understanding. Lesson two: Retrieval Focus. Retrieve, record and present information from a non-fiction text. Lesson three: Summarising focus. Summarise the main ideas of a text. Lesson four: Comparing texts. Identifying and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.

Lesson one: Read a text aloud focusing on intonation and fluency whilst asking questions to improve their understanding. Lesson two:Draw inferences referring to the characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, justify our inferences with evidence from the text. Lesson three: Discuss and evaluate how the author’s use of language, including figurative language can impact the reader. Lesson four: Make comparisons within and amongst texts. Differentiated resources available with this unit.