Unit A – Story Characters

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories, practise identifying words with irregular past tense spellings and write sentences using conjunctions based on James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl.

Research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories

Lesson One : Past Tense Words
Identify, define and match a range of different words that have been written in the past tense using their correct irregular spellings

Lesson Two : Sentence Links
Practise using a range of conjunctions to link pairs of sentence clauses about different characters that feature in a range of narrative stories to show their thoughts and actions

Lesson Three : Character Lists
Select and record collections of powerful adjectives that can be used to describe different characters in a story as part of expanded noun phrases

Lesson Four : New Character
Select and describe a character that could feature in a story by a significant author to show their thoughts and actions about the sequence of narrative events and plot developments

Lesson Five : Wanted Poster
Identify and present information about the appearance and behaviour of a character from a story by a significant author to illustrate their importance to the narrative
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team