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Making Memories

Year 5

Year Group: 5

Term: Spring 1a

Text Type and Outcome:

Non-Chronological Report

Write a non-chronological report about a planet of their choice.

Core Text:
War of the Worlds. HG Wells.

Weeks:

4

Audience and Purpose:

Purpose: To inform

Exhibition to show parents

 

Composition

•To discuss the audience and purpose of the writing.

•To start sentences in different ways.

• To use the correct features and sentence structure matched to the text type we are working on.

•To use grammar and vocabulary to create an impact on the reader.

•To add well chosen detail to interest the reader.

• To summarise a paragraph.

•To organise my writing into paragraphs to show different information or events. 

Grammar and Punctuation

Overlearning

Coordinating and Subordinating conjunctions (Y2)

Expressing time and cause using conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions (Y3)

To use commas after fronted adverbials and subordinate clauses (Y4)

 

Age Related Learning

Relative clauses

Parenthesis using brackets, dashes and commas

Transcription

 

Spelling

 

Suffixes es / ed/ ing/ er/ est to words ending in y and e

 

Suffixes ed/ ing /er / est where double last consonant

 

Prefixes un dis mis in il, im,

 

Suffix ment full y ness able

 

Suffixes tian, sion, ssion, cian

 

Suffix cial, tial, ous, tious

 

Homophones

 

Handwriting

Practising sloped writing: proportion - joining from f to ascender: fl, ft

Practising sloped writing: size - joining from f, no ascender: fa, fa, fi, fo, fu

Different styles for writing purposes: writing a paragraph

Practising sloped writing: speed: ff

Practising sloped writing: speed and legibility: rr

Practising sloped writing: size, proportion and spacing: ss

Practising sloped writing: building speed: qu

Different styles for different purposes: decorative alphabets

Different styles for different purposes

End of term check

Features

Title

Introduction (5Ws)

Facts

Information grouped into paragraphs

Sub-headings

Facts boxes, bullet points, photographs, diagrams, captions

Present tense verbs

3rd Person

Questions / Facts to engage reader

Fronted Adverbials

Scientific words / Formal style

Conjunctions

Parenthesis / Relative clauses to explain a word or add extra information

Speaking and Listening

Ask questions to extend understanding and knowledge prior to research

Describe a planet without saying the name.

Watch Newsround report about exploration on Mars and make their own broadcast.

Rapid Writes

Comparison of 2 planets using conjunctions

Write the script for a newsflash: Write on Ipad (Pages) and use it as an autocue. Breaking news. Space probe. 

Tier 2 Vocabulary

sustain

variations

specific

formed

rapid

 

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Recount Space Centre Trip

Explanation of how the planets orbit the sun, day and night, phases of the moon, seasons

Poetry: What is the sun

 

Year Group: 5

Term: Spring 1

Text Type and Outcome:

Narrative: Sci Fi

Model: 

Practise: Martian

Assessed: Tripods 

Core Text:
War of the Worlds

Weeks:

2

Audience and Purpose:

Purpose: To entertain

 

Composition

 

•To start sentences in different ways.

•To use the correct features and sentence structure matched to the text type we are working on.

• To develop characters through action and dialogue. 

•To establish a viewpoint as the writer through commenting on characters and events.

•To use grammar and vocabulary to create an impact on the reader.

•To add well chosen detail to interest the reader.

•To organise my writing into paragraphs to show different information or events. 

Grammar and Punctuation

Overlearning

 

Fronted Adverbials and Subordinate clauses

Apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession (Y4)

 

Age Related Learning

Indicate degrees if possibility using modal verbs and adverbs

Transcription

 

Spelling

 

Suffixes es / ed/ ing/ er/ est to words ending in y and e

 

Suffixes ed/ ing /er / est where double last consonant

 

Prefixes un dis mis in il, im,

 

Suffix ment full y ness able

 

Suffixes tian, sion, ssion, cian

 

Suffix cial, tial, ous, tious

 

Homophones

 

Handwriting

Practising sloped writing: proportion - joining from f to ascender: fl, ft

Practising sloped writing: size - joining from f, no ascender: fa, fa, fi, fo, fu

Different styles for writing purposes: writing a paragraph

Practising sloped writing: speed: ff

Practising sloped writing: speed and legibility: rr

Practising sloped writing: size, proportion and spacing: ss

Practising sloped writing: building speed: qu

Different styles for different purposes: decorative alphabets

Different styles for different purposes

End of term check

Features

 

Title

Describe characters Expanded noun phases

Atmosphere and suspense created

Setting in another world / characters from another world

Figurative language

Powerful verbs

1st person

Conjunctions

Structure

Introduction/ Build up

Problem (Martian / tripod )



 

Speaking and Listening

Word tennis – strategies to build vocabulary

Barrier game – draw a Martian: listen and respond appropriately


 

Rapid Writes

Description of the Martian

Acrostic Poem

Tier 2 Vocabulary

malevolent

intensely

monstrous

illuminate

lurched

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Recount Space Centre Trip

Explanation of how the planets orbit the sun, day and night, phases of the moon, seasons

Poetry: What is the sun

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