Unit E – Lady of Shalott
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how poets use figurative language to describe settings and characters when narrating a story, use rules to spell words containing ie and practise writing expanded noun phrases based on The Lady of Shalott, Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Explore how poets use figurative language to describe settings and characters when narrating a story
Lesson One : Word Definitions
Identify and record the correct spellings and matching definitions of a range of different words that contain the ie letter string
Lesson Two : Poetry Similes
Select special vocabulary words that can be used to construct a range of similes describing different characters in a narrative poem
Lesson Three : Poetry Characters
Devise and record expanded noun phrases using commas to separate images to describe a character in a narrative poem
Lesson Four : Poetry Verses
Model how to write an alternative verse for a narrative poem by selecting matching rhymes for different words to emulate the style and stricture of the writing
Lesson Five : Poetry Changes
Rewrite one of the verses from a narrative poem by adding alternative rhymes and using modal verbs to suggest possibilities about some of the events that happened in the story
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Detective Stories
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
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Detective Story Puzzles
Identify and record how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader about what happened
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Detective Story Paragraphs
Model and record how to convert a selection of paragraphs from a detective story from the first to the third person to indicate the sequence of narrative events
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Character Viewpoints
Select and compose a selection of paragraphs to match the content of a detective story written from the viewpoint of one of the characters