Year 5 & 6 Legends Lessons

  • Y5 Learning About Legends

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    KS2 National Curriculum:

    ✓ Identifying traits of legendary characters and their actions
    ✓ Exploring story elements such as setting, heroism, exaggeration, and moral impact
    ✓ Completing collaborative tasks using a shared text
    ✓ Presenting findings based on evidence from the eBook

    Activities in this lesson include learning about the features of legends, looking at St. George and the Dragon and Robin Hood and looking at how legends are structured so that the following questions can be answered; ‘What are legends about? When were legends written? What type of characters are in legends? Are legends true?’

    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 collaboration with a five-minute activity based on this extract.   

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  • Y5 St George and the Dragon

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    KS2 National Curriculum:

    ✓ Identifying traditional features of good vs. evil narratives
    ✓ Exploring symbolic meaning of dragons and heroic acts
    ✓ Reflecting on whether the story has personal or modern relevance
    ✓ Evaluating storytelling impact

    Activities in this lesson include learning about the features of legends, reading the full text of St. George and the Dragon, and answering higher and lower order questions about this legend.

    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 peer assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.   

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  • Y6 St George and the Dragon (play-script)

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    KS2 National Curriculum:

    ✓ Identifying features of a playscript (present tense, stage directions)
    ✓ Adapting a traditional tale into a modern script
    ✓ Writing dialogue that reflects character voice and motivation
    ✓ Collaborating with a partner to revise and rehearse

    Activities in this lesson include learning how to write a play-script, re-writing the legend of St George as a play-script and answering (and assessing) two higher 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.  

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  • Y6 The Legend of King Arthur

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    KS2 National Curriculum:

    ✓ Identifying key elements of a heroic legend
    ✓ Comparing traditional and modern depictions of King Arthur
    ✓ Creating informative texts (poster, chart, paragraph)
    ✓ Reflecting on memory strategies and character portrayal

    Activities in this lesson include a reminder about the features of legends, reading the full text of The Sword in the Stone, answering higher and lower order questions about legends, designing a poster, identifying and summarising the main features of legends.

    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 metacognition with a five-minute activity based on this extract.   

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