This unit of work is inspired by the planning of Power of Reading. Some lessons are the same but I have adapted it to include a writing cycle. The writing cycle supports students by including a grammar lesson, a planning lesson and then the writing lesson.
Power of reading week 1
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Eagle poems)
Power of reading week 2
Writing cycle structure (outcome: Letters)
When referring to the names Amari and Nala, my class gave the characters name so we knew who we were referring to throughout the story. Amari is the farmer’s friend who comes to visit the farmer and is shocked by the eagle. Nala Amari’s wife.
Lessons included are:
Lesson 1: Read and respond to the story ‘Fly Eagle Fly’
Lesson 2: Identify effective vocabulary
Lesson 3: Create a storyboard for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 4: Visualise and draw a setting
Lesson 5: Build a bank of vocabulary to describe an eagle
Lesson 6: Identify and use expanded noun phrases
Lesson 7: Gather information about eagles
Lesson 8: Create a plan for a poem
Lesson 9: Write a poem about an eagle (this can be extended to edit and publish)
Lesson 10: Understand a character’s feelings
Lesson 11: Understand a character’s perspective
Lesson 12: Identify powerful vocabulary
Lesson 13: Answer questions about a text
Lesson 14: Write a book review for Fly Eagle Fly
Lesson 15: Identify and use prepositions
Lesson 16: Gather information about South Africa
Lesson 17: Create a plan for a letter
Lesson 18: Write a letter (this can be extended to edit and publish)
This unit of work is based off the the NCETM Prioritisation and is created to be Y4 Unit 5 which is called ‘7 times tables and patterns’. This is a clear mastery approach to teaching maths.
This contains 7 lessons on this unit, plus an extra addition and subtraction revision lesson at the beginning. The objectives for each lesson are:
Revise column method for addition and subtraction
Count in and multiply by 7
Solve 7 times table problems
Identify patterns of odd and even numbers in times tables
Identify square numbers
Identify square numbers
Find divisibility rules
Find divisibility rules
Each lessons follows a structure which will support children’s understanding. There is at least one slide on each of the following:
-Revisit slide (prerequisite skills needed or revision of another previously taught skill)
-Address misconception (a slide that is put here to purposely address misconceptions through discussion, solving a problem)
-Vocabulary slide
-Focus (the teaching of the new skill)
Guided practice
Talk task (a problem to discuss)
Deepen (an opportunity to apply the skill to a deeper question or problem)
Independent practice (3 tasks)
Deepen/next steps (these can be used as feedback marking or trickier problems to give the children to deepen their understanding)
Here are 28 Guided Reading lessons. Each lesson comes with a set of questions based on the reading VIPERS.
Questions are to be stuck in books for children to answer.
This was originally made for a Year 4 class so could easily be adapted up to Year 5 or down to Year 3.
Most lessons have two sets of differentiated questions.
Tasks in this unit include:
Diary writing
sequencing the story
book review
Answering questions
Drawing
Created for Year 4 but easily adaptable.
Included are the worksheets/questions for the whole book.
2 per page - easy to print and trim.
All objectives based on the reading VIPERS
Clear planning leading up to an independent write on a non-chronological report on Ancient Maya. This can easily be adapted to another topic for the non-chronological report.
It includes:
Powerpoints
Differentiated worksheets
Extra information word document where needed
Links to videos to use
Lesson 1 - Features of a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like)
2: Nouns and pronouns
3: Applying knowledge of nouns and pronouns
4: Using paragraphs
5: Shared write
6: Edit and improve a WABOLL (what a bad one looks like)
7: Planning a non-chronological report on Maya
8: Independent Write
Step 9 would be to publish.
The SPAG this includes:
title, subheadings, glossary, paragraphs, fronted adverbials, nouns/pronouns for clarity, subject-specific vocabulary.
Suitable for Year 3 and 4.
This took 2 weeks to complete with my class.
This unit will last me two weeks with a year 3/4 class.
Can be easily adapted.
It contains absolutely everything you need including personally made word mats and sentence starters.
Lesson 1: Explore a WAGOLL non-chronological report (2 differentiated WAGOLL’s to work on - one on polar bears and one on pigs)
Lesson 2: Use paragraphs
Lesson 3: Use paragraphs (progressing from lesson 2)
Lesson 4: Create a shared plan
Lesson 5: Create a shared write
Lesson 6: Create an independent plan
Lesson 7: Create an independent write (3 differentiated success criterias)
Lesson 8: Edit and improve my work
Lesson 9: Publish my work (with appropriate template provided)