Upper KS2 Newspaper Recount Writing Unit - Based on The World's Worst Children 2 by David Walliams

A writing unit for upper KS2 made up of a series of 16 lessons based on stories from ‘The World’s Worst Children’ by David Walliams. Follows Pie Corbett’s Talk for Writing sequence but can be adapted/resequenced to match other approaches to writing.

This unit is fully resourced, including Smart Notebooks and activities for each lesson.

Lesson 1: Pulling apart the text
Lesson 2: Using direct quotes
Lesson 3: Using indirect quotes
Lesson 4: Vocabulary and the simple past tense
Lesson 5: Journalistic language
Lesson 6: Planning
Lessons 7-9: Writing (innovate)
Lesson 10: Subordinate clauses and drop-ins
Lesson 11: Sequencing
Lesson 12: Vocabulary and using the dash
Lesson 13: Planning
Lessons 14-16: writing (invent)

Unit also includes a full plan, model text, toolkits, vocabulary mats and examples to base the model writing on.