Unit C – Story Plots
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how authors use different settings, characters and events to advance the plot in a story, practise adding the suffixes able and ible to word roots and write complex sentences incorporating punctuation and conjunctions.
Investigate how authors use different settings, characters and events to advance the plot in a story from a specific genre
Lesson One : Word Match
Identify and record a selection of different words that contain the suffixes able and ible that match their correct written definitions
Lesson Two : Sentence Extensions
Select and add relative clauses, fronted adverbials and conjunctions using commas to extend a range of sentences from different story genres
Lesson Three : Story Sentences
Practise modelling how to change a selection of sentences from different story genres by using fronted adverbials, relative clauses and conjunctions
Lesson Four : Story Map
Plan the sequence of events in a story to match the characters, settings and events that can be used in a mystery or science fiction genre to illustrate their special features
Lesson Five : Story Writing
Compose and publish a narrative story using characters, settings and events matching a specific story genre to illustrate its matching text features
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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