English Year Six Planning Term Three
Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Six in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
Theme One
Fact and Fiction
Investigate how to compose stories matching different genres, practise writing recounts, explanations and speeches on a range of topics, explore spellings of words with suffix endings and model how to use different forms of punctuation when composing sentences.
(A) Story Structures
Investigate the common structures and features of a range of different types of stories and poems, practise adding suffixes to different word roots and use commas to punctuate sentences
(B) Story Library
Identify features of narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the structure of one type of writing, investigate and use spellings of words with silent letters and learn how to use semi-colons to link independent clauses in sentences
(C) Robots and Adventures
Investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts, explore and use spellings of words with cious and tious word endings and use colons to mark the boundary between sentence clauses
(D) Viewpoints
Practise using persuasive and discursive language to discuss and argue points of view in letters and magazine articles, identify and use rules to learn new spellings and practise using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis in sentences
Theme Two
Families
Practise composing a narrative story about a family modelled on a story by a significant author, write instructions for families to follow when completing tasks and create poems using different forms to illustrate family life
(E) Family Scenes
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
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Length Calculations
Practise using number calculations skills for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication when solving problems related to length measurements
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Maths Calculations Assessment
Assess abilities in solving a range of different number problems for addition and subtraction when working with informal and formal written calculations
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Determinant Lists
Explain and model how to make lists of objects used and found in different locations to match the correct determinants of a and an
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English SPAG Assessment
Assess abilities in composing sentences for fiction and non-fiction using the correct spellings, punctuation marks and grammar vocabulary phrases