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

  • Detective Stories

    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

  • Detective Story Puzzles

    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

  • Detective Story Paragraphs

    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

  • Character Viewpoints

    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