Autumn Term
Stories set in Imaginary Worlds
Reading and familiarisation of text type.
- Investigate the themes of the narratives and identify the key elements of the narrative structure
- Compare and contrast settings from the texts.
- Children should compare the settings to find common techniques for creating different atmospheres.
- Highlight evidence in texts that illustrate how the author has communicated to the reader the thinking and feelings of different characters.
- Children locate and highlight evidence in the texts that demonstrates how the author has shown what a character is thinking and feeling in response to a setting.
Capturing and Planning Ideas
- Developing settings using picture sources.
- Adapting settings to meet the requirements of mood and atmosphere.
- Creating story plans with a relevant sequence of settings and events.
Writing
- Organising writing into paragraphs.
- Revise and adapt drafts.
- Linking ideas within the writing by using adverbials and conjunctions.
Recounts
Reading, retrieving and making notes.
- Investigate the key elements of newspaper reports and magazine articles.
- Model writing for children
Reading, writing conclusions.
- Identify structure of events and key emotive phrases.
- Identification of key features in text examples.
- Identify fact, commentary and opinion in journalistic writing.
Writing newspaper Reports.
- Planning a recount by oral retelling and recording on planning sheets.
- Plan, draft and organise a newspaper recount using the correct features.
Spring Term
Stories from Other Cultures
- Read short stories from around the world
- Record their responses and ideas in a journal
- Make predictions about how the main characters will act
- Work in role to interview characters.
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Talk about making deductions based on evidence from the text and respond imaginatively
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Demonstrate how to use evidence from the text to support a point of view
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Review what they have learned about the characters.
Explanations
Familiarisation with text types and comprehension
- Read and analyse explanation texts.
- Text marking of key features.
- Use organisational features to find information quickly.
Modelling explanations through oral work and drama
- Rehearsal of oral explanations.
- Breakdown features of language used in explanations.
- Watch and re-watch The Shirt Machine by Jon Davis.
Visual Planning, Oral Rehearsal and Writing
- Children use information collected from reading more than one source and present it in the form of an explanation text.
- Children can write an explanation text from a diagrammatic plan, using the conventions of the text-type.
Poetry
Reading and Responding to Poems
- Read and analyse poems.
- Similes and other linguistic devices to create a vivid picture.
- Respond to the poems in a variety of ways - art, dance, drama, writing in reading journals.
- Consider why poets have chosen the language they used.
Language Development and Shared Writing
- Exploring similes through games and activities.
- Demonstrate how to gather ideas.
- Children understand how to plan and write a poem based on a model.
Writing a Poem Based on a Model
- Children write their own simple poem based on one already looked at.
- Children paint a vivid word picture by including similes and other descriptive features in their poems.
Summer Term
Stories with a Historical Setting
Persuasion
Familiarisation with text types and comprehension
- Read and analyse persuasion texts.
Poetry
Reading and Performing Poetry
- Read and analyse simple patterned poetry types e.g. cinquin and haiku.
- Discuss spoken rhythm and intonation.
Planning and Creating Poetry Presentations
- Using graphical software to create images for use in presentations.
- Recording and performing poems.
Showcasing and Evaluating Poetry Presentations
- Performance of presentations.
- Evaluation using criteria.