Unit E – School Storms

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to read and analyse the structure and content of recounts about the weather and write sentences from different viewpoints, practise adding prefixes to word roots and extend sentences using fronted adverbials and conjunctions.

Read and analyse the structure and content of recounts about the weather and write sentences from different viewpoints

Lesson One : Word Building
Practise creating a range of different words by adding prefixes to word roots and identify changes to their meaning

Lesson Two : Weather Events
Select and add fronted adverbials to different sentences about the weather to indicate when something happened

Lesson Three : Sentence Extensions
Extend different sentences about events in the weather to say when, where or how something happened

Lesson Four : Sentence Conjunctions
Select and add extra clauses to different sentences about things happening in the weather using a range of conjunctions

Lesson Five : Recount Editing
Identify and suggest improvements to a recount text about a rainstorm happening at the school
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Digit Combinations
Practise building and comparing a range of numbers by combining and matching sets of digits with different number values
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Letter Strings Words Sums
Learn the meanings and practise spelling words with common letter strings to work with when composing example sentences on different topics and themes
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Town Flag
Investigate and practise how to create different graphic shapes that can be utilised when producing a flag representing the local community
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Three Digit Values
Investigate and compare the place value of the matching sets of digits in numbers to one thousand to indicate their hundreds, tens and ones values