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
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team