World Explorers
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world. The class can explain how to use adverbials of time to specify when, how long or how often something happened during their recounts.
Ocean Crossing
Identify and record how to structure and format a fictional recount describing a sailing expedition in a yacht across an ocean in the world
Mountain Expedition
Identify and record how to structure and format a fictional recount describing a climbing expedition to the summit of a high mountain in the world
Dangerous Expeditions
Explain and model how to write a recount of an imagined expedition to a dangerous location in the world using adverbials of time to indicate the timing of events
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Family Scenes
Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life
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Homophones Matching
Explore the spelling and meaning of some different words that are homophones by matching and listing pairs of words with the same pronunciations
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Friction
Investigate, describe and test the effects of air and water resistance and friction on different objects and materials presenting results using graphs and tables
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Capacity Conversions
Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres