Unit A – Running Wild

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate the main characters and settings in a story by a significant author set in a rainforest, explore spellings of words with tious and cious endings and write and change sentences using relative clauses based on Running Wild, Michael Morpurgo.

Investigate the main characters, settings and sequence of events in an adventure story by a significant ’s author that takes place in a rainforest location

Lesson One : Word Suffixes
Explore the spellings and meanings of different words with endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt cious or tious to use when describing events from an adventure story

Lesson Two : Sentence Extensions
Practise extending a range of different sentences related to the sequence of events in an adventure story by using relative clauses beginning with when, where, which and who

Lesson Three : Sentence Edits
Practise editing a selection of sections from an adventure story changing from the first to the third person and extending different sentences by adding relative clauses

Lesson Four : Story Questions
Select and record questions that can be used to indicate the thoughts and actions of different characters in a section from an adventure story

Lesson Five : Story Events
Suggest and record an alternative sequence of events with conflict and resolution that might feature in the narrative of an adventure story written by a significant author
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Stone Age
Investigate and record how different aspects of life in prehistoric Britain developed and changed during the Stone Age
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Stonehenge
Investigate and record some of the special reasons as to why people built different monuments during the Stone Age in prehistoric Britain from a range of materials
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Stone Age Farming
Explore and record how and why people in the Stone Age began to harvest crops and started farming animals in their settlements to support their growing communities
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Stone Age Tools
Identify, describe and illustrate how people in the Stone Age in prehistoric Britain produced and used different tools for a range of functions to support their communities