KS2 Literacy unit
Split your class in half or have one class against the other.
Focuses on:
Fronted adverbials
Generalisers
PEE argument structure
Rhetorical questions
Relative clauses
There is an oracy element to the unit as well where pupils practice saying their sentences and debate out loud.
Lesson structure:
WAGOLL and understanding what a debate is
Looking at graffiti and research
Practice using generalisers and fronted adverbials
Practice using rhetorical questions
Practice using relative clauses
Practice writing within a PEE format
Planning lesson with box up template
Widgit representations for:
spellings
sentence starters
Differentiation for B squared with picture orientated task where they need to replace some of the words with synonyms
Multi step problem lesson
Example question:
There are 24 bricks in a bag 1/3 of the bricks are red. 3/8 of the bricks are blue. The rest of the bricks are green. How many bricks are green?
Starts off with a modelled working out on sheet 1.
Builds on with extra practice.
Fraction of amount multi step lesson
Example question:
There are 24 bricks in a bag 3/10 of the bricks are red. The rest of bricks are blue. How many bricks are blue.
First task: Involves calculating the fraction that is missing.
Builds into finding the amounts.
Starts off with bar models and scaffolds to support learning
Lots of opportunity for practice with modelled practice on slides.
Includes:
Pre/Post assessment for decimals
Understanding tenths
Understanding hundredths
Comparing and ordering decimals
Rounding to the nearest whole
Rounding to the nearest tenth
Mastery style teaching with teaching slides, sentence stems, pictorial and visual representations to support teaching
Rounding decimals to the nearest whole
Episodic lesson
Uses number lines and mastery teaching methods
Reasoning questions throughout to add context to the learning
Rounding to the nearest tenth teaching slides and worksheets
Focuses on number lines
Uses sentence stems
Two episodes of learning with number lines to support rounding
Counting recapped
Year 5 lesson can be adapted for year 4 and year 6
Orders decimals with tenths then hundredths and then into thousandths
Mastery approach with sentence stems
Small steps throughout the lesson with modeled practice
4 worksheets to accompany the lesson
1 week of arithmetic planning for year 5 maths
5-7 daily questions based on end of year expectations
Teaching slides that aid efficiency, accuracy and flexibility
Daily fluency
4-6 questions every day from Autumn to Spring 1
QLA for the spring mid term test base questions provides analysis for each domain in maths.
Spreadsheet that provides all of the data analysis for the spring mid term arithmetic.
Every single question requires a 0 or a 1.
For two mark questions there are two collumns.
After placing the 0’s and 1’s you are given an average percentage for each question + an average of question success rate for the different question types:
Addition
Subtraction
Multiplication
Division
Fraction
Decimals
How to train your dragon isntructions writing unit
Can be adapted for year 3- year 5
Features:
Time conjunctions
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Sub headings
Adverbs
Imperative verbs
Writing unit based on making a set of instructions on training a dragon:
Lesson 4: Understanding complex sentences
Lesson 5: Using imperative verbs with adverbs
Lesson 6: Using time adverbials
Lesson 7: Writing an introduction using compound and complex sentences
Lesson 8: Writing the first part of the instructions
Week 1 of planning based on how to train your dragon.
Final piece is a set of instructions based on year 5 expectations.
Lesson 1: Understanding the context of How to train a dragon
In depth analysis of the author
Characters
Dragons
Lesson 2: Understanding the features of instructions
Brackets
Compound and complex sentences
Numbered instructions
Engage the reader
Imperative (bossy) verbs
WAGOLL based on training a Sleipnir (8 legged Viking horse)
Uses all the features and follows the same structure of the final piece
Lesson 3: Understanding compound and simple sentences
Gives definitions of simple sentences
Gives definitions of compound sentences
Insert the coordinating conjunction in the missing gap
Writing compound sentences based on a stimulus linked to “How to train your dragon”