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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