Year 5 & 6 Familiar Settings Lessons

KS2 National Curriculum:

✓ Exploring narrative changes in location, time, and mood
✓ Writing connected events showing setting shifts
✓ Using cohesive devices to link paragraphs
✓ Peer evaluation using success criteria

This lesson looks in detail at the four main reasons why the setting in a story can change: the action in the story moves to a different setting, the characters in the story move to a different setting, the setting stays the same but the time of day changes and the setting stays the same but the weather changes. Activities include answering higher and lower order questions.

There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on self-assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.   

KS2 National Curriculum:

✓ Identifying coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
✓ Linking narrative ideas clearly and fluently
✓ Applying conjunctions in original story paragraphs
✓ Sorting sentences and analysing structure

This lesson looks at the various uses of conjunctions in writing; such as, to join short sentences together, to show cause and effect, to show that time has passed, to show that two things are happening at the same time and to show that something has changed. Activities include answering higher and lower order questions.

There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on self-assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.   

KS2 National Curriculum:

✓ Planning and writing a full mystery story
✓ Using suspense techniques and plot structure
✓ Paragraphing, dialogue, and character development
✓ Reviewing and improving narrative with peer feedback

This lesson focuses on a creative writing task – writing an account of being in a deserted house, late at night, for a mystery story. This creative writing task is scaffolded – it provides the tools for pupils to improve their creative writing by using both action and linking verbs, powerful verbs, ellipses and dashes, as well as varying sentence length for effect.

There is a five-minute evidence-based CPD activity at the end of this lesson which will develop classroom teachers’ skill set. This CPD consists of a research extract on self-assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.