Y6 Eng unit based on the true stories of 'Survivors' x 30 - Narrative/Recount/Newspaper Reports

This is a wonderful unit of work for Y6 pupils based on a non-fiction ‘true story’ book called ‘Survivors: the Extraordinary tales of the wild and beyond’ compiled by David Long and Kerry Hyndman. It is full of fantastic and interesting short real-life stories that completely engages the children and their curiosity. This is a sequence of 30 x lessons or 6 weeks to keep the children engaged.

Even though it’s a combination of many non-fiction ‘true’ short stories there are a variety of writing outcomes in different genres…

Writing outcomes:
• Narrative
• Recount
• Newspaper report
• Picture perfects (creative writing based on picture stimulus)

This unit is made up of 30 x lessons and includes all planning and supporting documents in both Word (editable) and PDF formats for ease of use. All teaching slides are in both Notebook and PDF format also.

Children will write a survival story, in narrative form following the plan, using:

• expanded noun phrases;
• relative clauses;
• simple, compound and complex sentences;
• progressive tense;
• ambitious vocabulary like adverbs, adjectives and figurative language.

As a current Y6 teacher I would really appreciate you leaving a positive review if you found the resources useful - many thanks in advance!