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

  • Family Scenes

    Family Scenes

    Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life

  • Homophones Matching

    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

  • Friction

    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

  • Capacity Conversions

    Capacity Conversions

    Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres