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Making Memories

Year 5

Year Group: 5

Term: Summer 2a

Text Type and Outcome:

Non-Fiction: Recount

Core Text:

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
 

Weeks:

4

Audience and Purpose:

Entertainment and Role play- take home a copy to say thank you to parents for paying for the trip.

 

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

Consistent use of past tense (Y2) and Standard English verb forms (Y4)

Different verb forms including progressive (Y2) and perfect (Y3)

 

Age Related learning

Relative clauses 

Transcription

 

Spelling

 

cious/ tious

 

ant/ance/

ent /ence

 

ancy / ency

 

able / ible / ably/ ibly

 

ough

 

Handwriting

Sloped writing: proportion: joining p and b to ascenders: ph, pl, bl

Handwriting for different purposes: joining from p and b, no ascender: bu, bi, bp, pu, pi, pr

Practising sloped writing: parallel downstrokes: bb, pp

Practising sloped writing: all double letters

Practising sloped writing for speed: tial, cial

Practising sloped writing for fluency.

Personal style

Handwriting for different purposes: print alphabet 

Assessments 

Capitals 

Features

Introduction – who/ what/ where/ when/ why

Events in order

Descriptive language – adjectives

Figurative language (similes, personification, alliteration)

Past tense verbs (most)

First person

Detail about the writer’s thoughts and feelings

Paragraphs

Fronted adverbials to link sentences

Fronted adverbials to link paragraphs

Parenthesis to give extra information about the noun

Relative clauses

 

Structure

Introduction

First Main Event 

Second Main Event 

Third Main Event 

Final Main Event 

Speaking and Listening

Telephone Conversations - paired activity to provide verbal recount.

Rapid Writes

Quick description of a ride they went on - what they saw, felt, heard etc.

Tier 2 Vocabulary

Multitude

Pinprick

Tingled

Anticipation

Hesitation

Hilarious

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Cover page - short information page about the day- Topic

Science experiment - writing up explanation of the test.

 

Year Group: 5

Term: Summer 2b

Text Type and Outcome:

Non-Fiction: Persuasion - Advert

Core Text:

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
 

Weeks:

2

Audience and Purpose:

To persuade the other Year 5 children to vote  for the best carousel (balloon debate). 

 

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

4 sentence types: (Y2)

Word classes : noun, adjective, verb, adverb (Y2/3)

 

Age Related Learning

Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place, number 

Modal verbs and adverbs to express possibility

Transcription

 

Spelling

 

cious/ tious

 

ant/ance/

ent /ence

 

ancy / ency

 

able / ible / ably/ ibly

 

ough

 

Handwriting

Sloped writing: proportion: joining p and b to ascenders: ph, pl, bl

Handwriting for different purposes: joining from p and b, no ascender: bu, bi, bp, pu, pi, pr

Practising sloped writing: parallel downstrokes: bb, pp

Practising sloped writing: all double letters

Practising sloped writing for speed: tial, cial

Practising sloped writing for fluency.

Personal style

Handwriting for different purposes: print alphabet 

Assessments 

Capitals 

Features

Simple present tense.

Opening statement that sums up the viewpoint.

Strong positive words (similes, alliteration).

Facts - statistics.

Address the reader directly. 

Speaking and Listening

Role Play/Improvisation - 30 seconds to sell a random object.

Debate - Why should/shouldn’t you go on the carousel? (Persuasive Language)

Rapid Writes

Shape poem in the shape of a carousel (focus on adjectives and similes).

Tier 2 Vocabulary

Opportunity 

Fantastical 

Mythical

Curious

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Recount of the trip

Explanation of air resistance and pulleys

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