Fiction

Non-fiction

Poetry/Drama

Plan 6B: Modern Classic Fiction

Required texts:

The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byers

Description:

Children will study classic narrative fiction. Using The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byers, they will look at the differences between literal and inferred information. They will examine how the author modifies their language to change the emphasis in writing, using adverbials and modal verbs. The children will then use these features of language to plan and write detailed stories of their own.

Grammar focus:
1. Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity in writing
2. Look at the infinitive form of a verb, and the split infinitive
3. Use expanded noun phrases and adverbials to add detail and link ideas within/between paragraphs
4. Use and understand UKS2 grammar accurately and appropriately

Reading comprehension texts.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling workbooks.

Spellings based on The National Literacy Strategy.

Plan 6B: Information Texts

Required texts:

The First Drawing by M Gerstein

Stone Age Boy by S Kitamura

The Secrets of Stonehenge by M Manning

Description:

Children explore information texts using the Stone Age as inspiration, including: The First Drawing; The Secrets of Stonehenge; and Stone Age Boy. They consider formal and informal language; explore modal verbs; revise a wide range of punctuation; write information texts in different styles; travel in time and share everything they have learnt in a show-stopping exhibition.

Grammar focus:
1. Use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility
2. Use bullet points and punctuate correctly
3. Recognise vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
4. Use full stops, commas, exclamation marks, speech marks and question marks to punctuate sentences correctly.

Reading comprehension texts.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling workbooks.

Spellings based on The National Literacy Strategy.

Classic Plays

Required texts:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Description:

Children explore the works of our greatest playwright, studying the language and its historical context. They will investigate Elizabethan theatre and the life of Shakespeare, such as is known.

The children will undertake roles in the play, and thereby understand the interaction between the characters and the intricacies of the plot and themes.

Learning the lines and interpreting the role to convey meaning and comedy in this well-known play will broaden the children’s knowledge and understanding of classic theatre.

The children will be working together to produce a play for performance.

Reading comprehension texts.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling workbooks.

Spellings based on The National Literacy Strategy.

Reading comprehension texts.

Grammar, punctuation and spelling workbooks.

Spellings based on The National Literacy Strategy.

Prep VI

Summer

Observational drawing

Painting

Colour

Line & mark

Collaborative artwork – random shapes

Still life studies, starting with sketches, positive/negative spaces then moving on to painting

Study the work of Barbara Hepworth and produce clay sculptures

If time – final 3D project