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Lyndon Green Junior School

Making Memories

Year 6

Year Group: 6

Term: Spring 2

Text Type and Outcome: 

Non-Fiction: Balanced Argument

Should Auggie go to mainstream school? Is it a good idea for Auggie to go into the wide world to school?

Core Text: Wonder

Weeks:

3

Audience and Purpose:

Audience: 

Purpose: 

 

Composition

•I can identify the audience for and purpose of the writing.

•I can choose the appropriate form and register for the audience and purpose of the writing.

•I use grammatical structures and features and choose vocabulary appropriate to the audience, purpose and degree of formality to make meaning clear and create effect.

•I use a range of sentence starters to create specific effects.

•I can use developed noun phrases to add detail to sentences.

•I use the passive voice to present information with a different emphasis. 

•I can sustain and develop ideas logically in non-narrative writing. 

Grammar and Punctuation

 

Overlearning

4 sentence types

Modal verbs and adverbs to indicate degree of possibility (Y5)

 

Age Related Learning

Use of semicolon, colon and dash.

Linking ideas across paragraphs using wide range cohesive devices.

Transcription

 

Spelling



 

Handwriting

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Features

Title – Statement to debate

An opening paragraph to introduce the issue

Paragraphs for and against – with the supporting evidence

Third person

Simple present tense

Formal, technical language

Facts and opinions – views on both sides

Generalisation e.g. some people

Conjunctions and adverbs – therefore, however

You may present the writer’s view in the conclusion, summarise or ask questions.

Speaking and Listening

Participate in a debate including making a speech while speaking audibly and justify arguments and opinions

Rapid Writes

Paragraph: homeschool vs in school

Things you might find in a Secondary school - strict teachers who stare at you.

Take my advice - how to survive secondary school? What could you say to Auggie?

Compare and contrast

Tier 2 Vocabulary

controversially

transition

Reading and Writing across Curriculum

Biography: Frida Kahlo

Instructions: cooking a meal

Non- Chronological report: Mexico and its geographical features.

Comparison: UK vs Mexico

Analysis of DT product.

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