Unit F – Great Flood
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to compose and edit a recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school, identify root words that can be changed by adding prefixes and use commas to add fronted adverbials to show when, where or how something happened.
Compose and edit an informal recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school
Lesson One : Anti and Auto
Play a selection of spelling and matching games to identify and record how to add the prefixes anti and auto to a range of different word roots
Lesson Two : Weather Opinions
Select and use fronted adverbials to suggest what someone might have said to describe when, where or how things happened in the weather
Lesson Three : Rainstorm Scenes
Select and record what different characters might have said to recount some of the things that happened during a flood event at the school
Lesson Four : Flood Recount
Plan and draft a recount from the viewpoint of a character describing what happened during a flooding event at the school’s location
Lesson Five : Recount Editing
Model how to edit and redraft a recount containing facts and opinions about what happened during a flooding event at the school’s location
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition