A Y6 ‘working at standard’ writing unit based on a ‘talk for writing model’. It includes a hook, exemplar story, vocabulary/grammar and sentence work.
This 2 week unit provides a thorough and imaginative approach to writing a ‘finding’ story. It explores the vocabulary of the story (including Y6 spellings); using the passive voice (including sats style questions) and building suspense in a story.
A model ‘finding’ story using text and sentence structure, examples of language, punctuation and spelling from the Teacher’s assessment frames for expected at the end of KS2 and Pie Corbett’s teaching guide for progression in writing.
Also includes an annotated version.
Based on a Christmas theme:
Three activities involving reading and plotting co-ordinates across 4 quadrants, and two additional SATs style co-ordinate style questions.
A ppt resource which could be used across several lessons. The pupils are given the opportunity to remember and consolidate their knowledge of figurative language; to read and understand a winter poem that uses figurative language and then identify language and effect. Following that, they can use the poem as a stimulus to write their own winter poetry.
The pupils have the opportunity to use talk partners to recall and develop ideas and also to work independently or collaboratively on their own poetry.
A progressive resource, best used for revision.
Pupils need to recall: addition/subtraction fractions with like denominators and denominators that are multiples of the same number; changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and how to find common denominators.
A personification character description of the month, April, based on the Slovak traditional story, ‘The Twelve Months’.
Synopsis of story: A girl is sent into a cold forest in winter to perform impossible tasks by her evil stepmother. She must get Spring violets, Summer strawberries and Autumn apples. She meets 12 personified months by a warm fire with December sitting on the throne. She tells them her plight and three months sit on the throne in turn and give her the what she needs. On her return, no thanks is given but the stepmother ventures out in greed to find the months. January sits on the throne and the stepmother perishes in the winter blizzards.