Unit B – Friendships
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life, investigate how to add suffixes to word roots and extend sentences using fronted adverbials based on The Fib, George Layton.
Practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life
Lesson One : Spelling Rules
Explain and record how to use spelling rules to identify word roots that have been changed by the addition of different suffixes to use when writing sentences related to a narrative story
Lesson Two : Where, When, How
Practise adding fronted adverbials to different example sentences using commas to indicate where, when or how something happened in a narrative story about friendship
Lesson Three : Story Scenarios
Practise using Standard English for verb inflections to describe some alternative scenarios for a narrative story about friendship
Lesson Four : Story Planning
Identify and record how to plan a narrative story to illustrate an issue that might arise between friends at school to illustrate a change in their relationships
Lesson Five : Story Writing
Explain and model how to draft and edit a narrative story about an issue that might occur between friends based on different selected scenarios
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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
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Story Conjunctions
Identify and model how to link clauses in sentences related to some of the special characters and events that feature in different stories