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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Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Explore how and why the Ancient Egyptians constructed and used different pyramids and tombs to reflect their beliefs about the afterlife
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Earthquakes
Investigate and record some of the different causes and effects of earthquakes on locations around the world
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Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
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Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties