Unit A – Detective Stories

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate common features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences based on The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences

Lesson One : Word Suffixes

Identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots to use when describing events that could happen in a detective story

Lesson Two : Sentence Clauses

Practise adding a range of phrase and clauses to different sentences from a detective story using commas and conjunctions to indicate characters, settings and narrative events

Lesson Three : Character Viewpoints

Select and compose a selection of paragraphs to match the content of a detective story written from the viewpoint of one of the characters

Lesson Four : Story Paragraphs

Model and record how to convert a selection of paragraphs from a detective story from the first to the third person to indicate the sequence of narrative events

Lesson Five : Story Puzzles

Identify and record how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader about what happened

  • Hundredths and Tenths

    Hundredths and Tenths

    Explain and record how to illustrate the place value of the sets of matching digits in numbers to two decimal places

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Investigate the content and structure of a range of different types of texts on the theme of food drink by answering matching comprehension questions

  • Sports Rap

    Sports Rap

    Select vocabulary and rhythm structures to compose and perform rap poems describing actions and events connected to different Olympic sports

  • Word Power

    Word Power

    Explore meaning and importance of different words that can be used as a guide about how to respond to different scenarios and events