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Y5 / Y6 Genres, Settings and All That (project)
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✓ Exploring fantasy, pirate, sci-fi, and traditional story settings
✓ Using graphic organisers and Bloom’s questioning
✓ Clarifying misconceptions through peer teaching
✓ Writing a comparison summary based on genre featuresThis project looks at the typical settings for different genres including pirate, science fiction, fantasy and traditional stories. Activities include answering higher and lower order questions and completing a true/false activity and then turning all the false answers into true ones.
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 independent learning with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Y6 Mystery Stories and Powerful Verbs
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✓ Selecting powerful verbs for mood
✓ Identifying main and subordinate clauses
✓ Building sentences that build suspense
✓ Peer assessing writing impactThis lesson focuses on how mystery stories are made interesting by using powerful verbs to describe actions and by using conjunctions to vary the length of sentences. This unit also looks at main and subordinate clauses and subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
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 independent learning with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Y6 Pirates and Privateers
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✓ Interpreting different viewpoints (e.g. pirate vs. privateer)
✓ Discussing the role of the law in defining crime
✓ Evaluating moral dilemmas and justifying actions
✓ Teaching a partner using peer-led reasoning tasksThe lesson looks at the origins of piracy, pirates in stories vs pirates in real life, the difference between pirates and privateers and the role played by letters of marque. Activities include answering higher and lower order questions, explaining the difference between pirates and privateers to a peer and deciding whether their sympathies lay with pirates or privateers given the information provided.
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 independent learning with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Y6 The Emperor’s New Clothes (III) Proverbs
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✓ Interpreting the moral or message behind traditional sayings
✓ Paraphrasing and illustrating proverbs to show understanding
✓ Designing a classroom resource based on moral messages
✓ Connecting fable/moral story structure to broader life lessonsActivities in this lesson include learning about proverbs, looking at how to design a poster and designing a poster to show the main features of proverbs.
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 independent learning with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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