Unit E – Family Scenes
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how authors illustrate character relationships in a story about family life, identify the meanings and spellings of confusing words and use the perfect form of verbs to indicate timing based on Gangsta Granny by David Walliams.
Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life
Lesson One : Confusing Words
Explore how to identify the correct spelling of different words that are commonly confused to use in example sentences about scenes from stories about families
Lesson Two : Sentence Timing
Practise using the perfect form of verbs to correctly indicate the timing of different events in some example sentences about what can happen in a family
Lesson Three : Brackets and Dashes
Explain and model how to add interrupting thoughts to example sentences about what can happen in a family by using brackets and dashes
Lesson Four : Story Dialogue
Practise writing some dialogue sentences for a narrative story to illustrate the relationships that can happen between different characters in a story about families
Lesson Five : Story Character
Investigate and record how to invent and describe some new characters that could appear in a story about family life that has been written by a significant author
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Subtraction Sequences
Identify and illustrate the sequences of steps that can be used when completing standard written methods using decomposition to subtract pairs of numbers with four or more digits
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Homophone Meanings
Identify, match and record the different meanings and definitions of pairs of words that can be classed as homophones
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Special Places Poetry
Create descriptive images to use in poetry describing some of the different places that can be found in the local community
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Family Scenes
Explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life