Unit C – Story Changes

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant author, add the suffix ing to words with stressed final consonants and extend sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials based on James and the Giant Peach.

Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author

Lesson One : Word Sums
Practise adding the suffix ing to build different words with unstressed and stressed final consonants that can be used to illustrate some of the events that occurred in a narrative story

Lesson Two : Sentence Links
Identify and record how to link clauses in different sentences related to a narrative story when using a range of conjunctions

Lesson Three : When, Where, How
Select and add fronted adverbials to a range of different sentences to show when, where, or how something happened in a story by Roald Dahl

Lesson Four : Story Problem
Explain and model how to compose a paragraph describing a problem that some of the characters might need to solve in a narrative story by Roald Dahl

Lesson Five : Story Solution
Select and complete an extra part for an adventure story describing how some of the characters might solve a problem in the narrative
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Fraction Lengths, Masses and Capacities
Practise using division number skills to calculate and record the fractions of different measurements for length, mass and capacity
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Story Changes
Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author
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Easter Viewpoints
Explore some of the main narrative events in the Easter story and suggest how different characters might have reacted to what happened to Jesus
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Viking Longships
Select, combine and adjust different graphic shapes to create the design that could be used on a replica Viking longship sail