Unit B – Story Characters

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how authors use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to word roots, match the correct determinants to nouns and link sentence clauses using the conjunctions based on The Angel of Nitshill Road, Anne Fine.

Explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses

Lesson One : Word Sums
Identify and record changes that can happen to the spelling and meaning of different word roots when adding the prefixes in and im

Lesson Two : Word Determinants
Select and record how to use the correct determinants that should precede different nouns beginning with a range of vowels or consonants

Lesson Three : Sentence Links
Practise using conjunctions to link different sentence clauses about some of the characters that feature in a story that takes place in a school

Lesson Four : Character Lists
Select and make collections of vocabulary words that can be used in sentences with matching conjunctions to describe characters in a story with a familiar setting

Lesson Five : School Report
Select and record a list of vocabulary words that can be used when composing a report to describe a character from a story with a familiar setting to illustrate their impact on the narrative
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Stone Age
Investigate and record how different aspects of life in prehistoric Britain developed and changed during the Stone Age
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Stonehenge
Investigate and record some of the special reasons as to why people built different monuments during the Stone Age in prehistoric Britain from a range of materials
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Stone Age Farming
Explore and record how and why people in the Stone Age began to harvest crops and started farming animals in their settlements to support their growing communities
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Stone Age Tools
Identify, describe and illustrate how people in the Stone Age in prehistoric Britain produced and used different tools for a range of functions to support their communities