Unit A – School Issues
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, investigate rules for adding suffixes to word roots and write sentences using more than one clause based on How to Write Really Badly, Anne Fine.
Explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, add suffixes to word roots and write sentences with more than one clause
Lesson One : Suffix Rules
Practise adding a range of different suffixes to word roots using the matching spelling rules to use when describing events in a fiction story that raises issues about school life
Lesson Two : Sentence Combinations
Practise linking pairs of sentence clauses about a range of different events that might happen in a story that is set in a school using a range of conjunctions
Lesson Three : School Happenings
Identify and model how to add fronted adverbials to say when, how or where things happened in sentences about some of the different things that might happen in a story set in a school
Lesson Four : Sentence Changes
Identify and record how to change sentences about things that might happen in a school using the correct forms of Standard English for auxiliary verbs
Lesson Five : Golden Rules
Practise writing a set of rules for another pupil to follow based on one of the main events in a narrative story that raise issues about school life and friendship
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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