Unit A – Story Changes

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families to support spelling of common words and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

Lesson One : Word Groups
Identify, group and define the meaning of different words with different prefixes and suffixes that are part of the same root family

Lesson Two : Story Dialogue
Practise using inverted commas to indicate some of the dialogue sentences that might have been spoken by characters in a traditional tale

Lesson Three : Sentence Changes
Identify and record how to convert a range of different sentences from traditional tales from the third to the first person

Lesson Four : Story Endings
Model how to rewrite the ending to a traditional tale writing in the first person from the viewpoint of one of the characters in the narrative story

Lesson Five : Story Planning
Select, plan and record the sequence of events for a narrative story based on a traditional tale by Hans Christian Anderson to match his writing structure and style
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3D Shape Labels
Identify and record how to label models and illustrations of some different 3D shapes to indicate their special properties
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Adventure Plays
practise composing and performing play scripts using the correct structure and format to illustrate adventures to different locations
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Shakespeare Plays
Investigate the structure and format of different scenes extracted from plays by William Shakespeare to use for drama performances
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Greek Myths
Practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece