The Piano - complete literacy unit plus all resources and planning (animation by Aidan Gibbons)

This literacy unit of work on Aidan Gibbons’ animation The Piano includes a SMART and PowerPoint version covering ten lessons with word- and sentence-level work, vocabulary-building activities, a focus on relative pronouns and dashes and hyphens. Detailed two week plans are included as well as a differentiated sentence opener word bank, paragraph planning guide, final template for neat copy, hyphen worksheet, dash LA worksheet, modeled text to highlight good practice, timeline and images to sort and an adjective, adverb and verb word bank template using Language through Colour. The dash and hyphen grammar PowerPoint for pre-teaching the concepts is also included as are the conjunction and punctuation checklists referred to in the editing lesson.