Unit F – Poem Mysteries
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings, practise adding vowel suffixes to words ending in fer and learn when to use semi-colons to punctuate lists based on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.
Explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings
Lesson One : Word Building
Select and match different roots and vowel suffixes to build a range of words that can be used to describe a poetry character
Lesson Two : Mystery Lists
Practise using colons and semi-colons to compose lists in sentences about mysterious characters and creatures
Lesson Three : Poetry Verse Changes
Model how to adapt and change the mood in a verse from a poem about a mysterious character
Lesson Four : Highwayman Letter
Compose a letter to a character from a poem describing what could happen next in the story.
Lesson Five : Highwayman Escape
Compose a new verse for a narrative poem illustrating an alternative ending scene for the characters
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Classic Fiction Extensions
Identify and record how to use relative clauses to extend sentences taken from a range of classic fiction stories by significant authors
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Black Beauty
Practise selecting and using a range of relative clauses to change different sentences taken from the work of classic fiction Black Beauty by a significant author
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Alice in Wonderland
Practise selecting and using a range of relative clauses to change different sentences taken from the work of classic fiction Alice in Wonderland by a significant author
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Five Children and It
Select and model how to add extra information and facts to different sentences from the classic story of the Five Children and It by using relative clauses