Harry Potter Writing Tasks and SPaG SATs revision

This unit brings the magic to the classroom through a topic that many are immediately captivated by. It also gives children another chance to practice some of the essential skills they will need to achieve a range of writing standards in Year 6; whilst revising, learning and applying a range of SPaG. The unit contains 44 English lessons based on the Harry Potter novels and covering a variety of genres. Each genre has 5-6 lessons so can be taught as a weekly unit. Each lesson has an accompanying presentation and worksheets and resources are provided and can be adapted based on the needs of the class.

Also included are one off comprehension lessons that vary in difficulty and use formal and informal extracts to support teaching and learning. Spellings are provided but these may be altered/discarded to suit any spelling programmes that your school may follow.

Activities are differentiated and opportunities for Greater Depth writers are presented through learning outcomes, success criteria and through their own choice of writing. Opportunities for those who struggle with writing are also provided through guided means and lessons that build towards their given writing topic, i.e. writing a howler as Harry to the Dursley Family.

Genres included:
Emotive letters from a character to another through a Howler.
Descriptive and predictive writing as a director bringing a scene to life for their set creators and actors to follow.
Writing a series of instructions as a Hogwarts Teacher for new pupils.
Writing an information text on a magical item.
Creating a narrative text of the trials to reach the Philosopher’s Stone in the eyes of another character.
Writing a report on the events that took place during the OWLs under Dolores Umbridge.
Creating a persuasive letter to support/argue against the trial of Buckbeak.
Reporting, through a newspaper report, on one of the Trials of the Triwizard Tournament.

SPaG included:
Basic word class identification - nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and determiners
Expanded noun phrases
Subordinate and relative clauses
Modal verbs
Active and passive voice
Subject, object or verb
Apostrophes
Command, instruction, exclamation, question
Simple, complex, compound, complex compound sentences
Parenthesis
Conjunctions, adverbials, prepositions
Tense forms
Register
Bullet points
Inverted commas
Colons, semi-colons and commas