Unit F – Whales Song
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how authors use dialogue to illustrate the actions and thoughts of story characters and narrate plot events, practise adding prefixes to word roots and punctuate dialogue sentences based on The Whales’ Song, Dyan Sheldon and Gary Blythe.
Explore how authors use dialogue to illustrate the actions and thoughts of story characters and narrate plot events
Lesson One : Prefix Word Sums
Practise adding the prefixes anti and auto to word roots to build different words that can be used in sentences describing whales
Lesson Two : Story Happenings
Select and record dialogue sentences that might have been spoken by characters in a story to illustrate some of the different narrative events
Lesson Three : Story Scenes
practise writing in the first person from the viewpoint of a character to suggest what might happen next in a narrative story about whales
Lesson Four : Whale Watching
Model how to select and use the correct punctuation marks to convert from reported to direct speech in sentences about whales related to a narrative story
Lesson Five : Character Dialogue
Illustrate how to write and punctuate dialogue sentences to show what different characters might have said in a narrative story about whales
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition