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Y5 The Cook is really Long John Silver
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✓ Understanding bartering, currency, and trade in historical context
✓Explaining why treasure is buried and how maps are created
✓Completing a pirate plot story mountain
✓Exploring openings to pirate storiesThis lesson looks at why gold became so important and it introduces the concepts of bartering and trade. It also looks at why gold needed to be buried and considers the key role played by treasure maps in the plots of pirate stories. It also looks at the need to include good and bad characters. Activities include completing a story mountain outlining a possible plot for a pirate story and a task based on pirate story openings.
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 Why Gold was Buried
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✓ Understanding bartering, currency, and trade in historical context
✓Explaining why treasure is buried and how maps are created
✓Completing a pirate plot story mountain
✓Exploring openings to pirate storiesThis lesson looks at why gold became so important and it introduces the concepts of bartering and trade. It also looks at why gold needed to be buried and considers the key role played by treasure maps in the plots of pirate stories. It also looks at the need to include good and bad characters. Activities include completing a story mountain outlining a possible plot for a pirate story and a task based on pirate story openings.
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 Writing a Pirate Recount
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✓ Identifying and applying the 4 W’s (who, what, when, where)
✓ Using past tense and first/third person accurately
✓ Including fronted adverbials and time connectives
✓ Writing a detailed recount of digging up buried treasureThis lesson looks at the features of a recount including the 4 W’s and time connectives. Activities in this lesson include writing a report about finding buried treasure – an activity which involves incorporating instructions into the recount. A recount template is 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 peer assessment with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Y5 / Y6 The First and Third Pirate
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✓ Identifying first- and third-person narrative voices
✓ Understanding present, past, and future tenses
✓ Converting text from third person to first person
✓ Peer and self-assessment of written perspectiveThis lesson looks at person and tense through extracts from pirate stories. Activities include answering higher and lower order questions and a first/third person close activity.
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 Creative Writing Pirate Activity
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✓ Using story mountains to structure narrative endings
✓ Crafting story resolutions linked to a build-up
✓ Using adjectives, adverbs, and powerful verbs for impact
✓ Peer assessing narrative effectivenessActivities in this lesson include writing the resolution and ending for a pirate story after looking at how a pirate story is structured and completing a story mountain. There are also reminders about using adjectives, adverbs and powerful verbs.
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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Y5 Cabin Boys and Cabin Girls
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✓ Describing characters consistently using four key lenses
✓ Developing contrasting character traits (friendly vs. nasty pirates)
✓ Creating a new cabin boy/girl character for a pirate storyThis lesson looks at how to describe a character in four different ways; by what they think or feel, what they say and how they say it, what they do or how they behave, and by what they look like. After looking at a nice pirate described in these four ways pupils have to describe a nasty pirate in the same four ways. Pupils also learn about cabin boys and girls before describing a cabin boy/girl of their own.
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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Y5 I Spy a New Paragraph
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✓ Recognising the five paragraph rules (setting, character, time, speech, event change)
✓ Writing sentences to show change and justify new paragraphs
✓ Practising structured narrative organisationThis lesson explores the five rules for starting a new paragraph. Activities include identifying the reason for a new paragraph from short extracts and writing a new paragraph for a specific purpose.
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-regulation with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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Y6 Avast, Me Hearties
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✓ Using historical context to build setting and character understanding
✓ Profiling good and bad characters using four descriptive dimensions
✓ Identifying powerful verbs and applying them in narrative
✓ Completing a pirate story mountain based on evidenceThis lesson looks at many aspects of the life of a pirate. Activities include completing a story mountain and profiling a good pirate and a bad pirate based on the four common ways to describe a character in fiction. Activities also include identifying powerful verbs in an extract from a pirate story.
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-regulation with a five-minute activity based on this extract.
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