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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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