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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Valentine Gifts
Investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day
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Valentine Boxes
Practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special
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Flower Bouquet
Produce a bouquet of paper flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day by shaping and combining a range of different materials
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Valentine Hearts
Design and produce Valentine’s Day card designs using layers and combinations of different shapes and materials