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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