Unit A – Story Changes

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families to support spelling of common words and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

Lesson One : Word Groups

Identify, group and define the meaning of different words with different prefixes and suffixes that are part of the same root family

Lesson Two : Story Dialogue

Practise using inverted commas to indicate some of the dialogue sentences that might have been spoken by characters in a traditional tale

Lesson Three : Sentence Changes

Identify and record how to convert a range of different sentences from traditional tales from the third to the first person

Lesson Four : Story Endings

Model how to rewrite the ending to a traditional tale writing in the first person from the viewpoint of one of the characters in the narrative story

Lesson Five : Story Planning

Select, plan and record the sequence of events for a narrative story based on a traditional tale by Hans Christian Anderson to match his writing structure and style

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    Valentine Gifts

    Investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day

  • Valentine Boxes

    Valentine Boxes

    Practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special

  • Flower Bouquet

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    Produce a bouquet of paper flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day by shaping and combining a range of different materials

  • Valentine Hearts

    Valentine Hearts

    Design and produce Valentine’s Day card designs using layers and combinations of different shapes and materials