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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Times Tables Division
Practise using facts in each of the times tables to support the division of pairs of numbers when solving a range of problems
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Football Teams
Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions
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School Letters
Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes
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Living Things and Habitats
Identify, group and compare some of the different plants and animals that live in a variety of habitats around the world