Unit C – Story Changes
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant author, add the suffix ing to words with stressed final consonants and extend sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials based on James and the Giant Peach.
Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author
Lesson One : Word Sums
Practise adding the suffix ing to build different words with unstressed and stressed final consonants that can be used to illustrate some of the events that occurred in a narrative story
Lesson Two : Sentence Links
Identify and record how to link clauses in different sentences related to a narrative story when using a range of conjunctions
Lesson Three : When, Where, How
Select and add fronted adverbials to a range of different sentences to show when, where, or how something happened in a story by Roald Dahl
Lesson Four : Story Problem
Explain and model how to compose a paragraph describing a problem that some of the characters might need to solve in a narrative story by Roald Dahl
Lesson Five : Story Solution
Select and complete an extra part for an adventure story describing how some of the characters might solve a problem in the narrative
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Family Scenes
Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life
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Homophones Matching
Explore the spelling and meaning of some different words that are homophones by matching and listing pairs of words with the same pronunciations
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Friction
Investigate, describe and test the effects of air and water resistance and friction on different objects and materials presenting results using graphs and tables
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Capacity Conversions
Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres