Children look at kitchen gadgets and early TV adverts and then work in groups to make up an advert for the first microwave, then act it out for the rest of the class.

In Wiesner’s book Tuesday strange events took place on a Tuesday around 8pm! As detectives, children interview witnesses before filing their report. Children also study differences between reports and magazine articles; identifying fact, opinion and bias. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Children choose from a range of performance poems to read, enjoy and perform. They use sound effects to make them even more exciting. Then it’s reading and listening to raps. After that writing a rap about a monster or a subject of their own choice. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Raymond Briggs provides perfect stimulus for this fantastic 4 week block. Starting with The Snowman children build up a range of skills that serve them well as they work towards the creation of their film trailer for the screen version of ‘The Bear’. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Who was first to the top Mallory or Hillary? Children take a look at the evidence and develop an understanding of the features of recounts before making up their minds. They then write and record their own recount based on their interviews for the BBC audio site. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Explore adventure fiction using The Wrong Trousers, The Eighteenth Emergency and innovative graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. Create characters, plot the build-up and describe the action. Learn how a graphic novel is created, then plan, write and publish your own! Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

What’s it like to look after a baby? Children have the opportunity to see a real baby and ask the mother questions about life with a baby! They then use drama to explore family life and the needs of a baby.

Compare performance poems that tell a story and identify the features that make a good performance poem. Children then write their own performance poetry based on a fairy tale. Perform it for an invited audience using dramatic conventions to enhance the poem.

Children explore features of narrative poems through ballads. They write modern day versions as well as performing them to others. Finally they are transported into the wonderful world of oral storytelling; listening and re-telling their own stories. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Children investigate persuasive writing devices in a variety of magazine and newspaper adverts and cinema and TV adverts. They produce an individual poster, work in groups to write a TV or radio advert and then create a trailer for a children’s DVD.

Children will learn to write simple explanation texts based on the fantastic book – Five Little Fiends. They use drama and hot-seating to explore reasons for choices and learn how to use connectives to create more detailed explanations. Find other lesson plans and resources at www.hamilton-trust.org.uk.

Children look at a variety of prepared scripts and broadcasts, both radio and TV. They discuss different types, then focus on news and short animations. Children write their own scripts and create a 90 second audio broadcast which they record. Suitable for Year 5 and 6.