Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life

Practise using persuasive and discursive language to discuss and argue points of view in letters and magazine articles

Investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts

Identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing

Research and write a news report using journalistic writing containing fact and opinion about a mysterious school event

Investigate some of the different ways that news stories about mysteries are reported and presented using journalistic writing

Investigate how authors use different settings, characters and events to advance the plot in a story from a specific genre

Select characters, settings and events to use when writing science fiction stories, identify words that contain the ible suffix and practise using commas and conjunctions to write complex sentences

Investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences

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

Explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings

Investigate different non-fiction texts about the lives of royal monarchs from British history by writing an example biography for a Tudor king or queen