Unit B – Story Places
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate narrative techniques used by authors to describe story settings, practise building words by adding the suffix ed to words with stressed final syllables and extend sentences using conjunctions based on James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl.
Investigate some of the narrative techniques that can be used by authors to describe story settings
Lesson One : Word Sums ed
Explain and model how to add the suffix ed to a range of different word roots with stressed final syllables to utilise when describing some of the special places that can feature in a story
Lesson Two : Sentence Adjectives
Select and record powerful and exciting adjectives that can be used to build expanded noun phrases to describe different settings that can feature in a range of stories
Lesson Three : Sentence Extensions
Practise using a range of different conjunctions to extend sentences about some of the special places that feature in a story by adding extra clauses
Lesson Four : Story Lists
Select and compile lists of adjectives that can be used to describe some of the nouns matching a specific setting in a narrative story
Lesson Five : What Location
Select and record descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special setting that could appear in a fiction story based on the work of Roald Dahl
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world
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Division Measurements
Practise solving problems using division number skills to divide measurements for length, capacity and mass using a range of matching units
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Long Division Sums
Explain and model how to use standard written methods for long division to solve problems when calculating the matching quotients including with remainders