Unit E – Family Scenes
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how authors illustrate character relationships in a story about family life, identify the meanings and spellings of confusing words and use the perfect form of verbs to indicate timing based on Gangsta Granny by David Walliams.
Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life
Lesson One : Confusing Words
Explore how to identify the correct spelling of different words that are commonly confused to use in example sentences about scenes from stories about families
Lesson Two : Sentence Timing
Practise using the perfect form of verbs to correctly indicate the timing of different events in some example sentences about what can happen in a family
Lesson Three : Brackets and Dashes
Explain and model how to add interrupting thoughts to example sentences about what can happen in a family by using brackets and dashes
Lesson Four : Story Dialogue
Practise writing some dialogue sentences for a narrative story to illustrate the relationships that can happen between different characters in a story about families
Lesson Five : Story Character
Investigate and record how to invent and describe some new characters that could appear in a story about family life that has been written by a significant author
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Landscapes
Develop and practise different painting techniques when creating a landscape portraying a scene in the local area as part of the school neighbourhood
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Mass Calculations
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when solving measurement problems for mass
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Triangle Angles
Investigate, record and compare the matching properties of different types of triangle shapes including their sets of right, acute and obtuse angles
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Sport Instructions
Read and write sets of instructions choosing vocabulary words and sentence structures for clarity about how to become successful at an Olympic sport