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Class 3 English Phase 2 Terms 5 and 6 (April to July 2015)
Genres
Fiction texts
Non-fiction
texts
Poetry
General
areas
studied
Information texts, eye witness accounts and diary writing-Revision unit on the Titanic
Myths and Legends
Comparative writing
Recounts
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Greek Myths retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
Kaspar, the Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo
Titanic (Eyewitness) published by Dorland Kindersley
You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic by Davis Stewart
Archived newspaper reports, eye witness accounts and information about the Titanic
Poetry using the theme of water
The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
The Inchcape Rock Robert Southey
Continue work on accurate and consistent use of commas to mark off clauses within
complex sentences.
Continue to develop understanding and use of more advanced punctuation, such as
semi colons, colons and brackets.
Develop and improve use of paragraphs to achieve pace and emphasis.
Construct sentences in varied ways to achieve different effects, ensuring that adapted
sentences are grammatically correct.
Use verbs and adverbs to convey precise meaning.
Make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain ideas or events
Reflect independently and critically on their own writing, edit and improve it
Recite and perform age-appropriate poetry which has been learnt by heart.
Discuss and experiment with figurative language and evaluate its effect on the reader.
Make comparisons within and across texts e.g. compare two ghost stories.
Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
Distinguish fact from opinion and understand the difference.
Retrieve, record and re-present information independently.
Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph, identifying key details which
support these.
Opportunities for speaking and listening
Role play of a news programme about the events
surrounding the sinking of the Titanic.
Performance Poetry
Year 6 speeches
Spelling
Year 5
Common use of hyphen eg co-ordinate
Commonly misspelt words, such as neighbour, temperature, leisurely
Easily confused words, such as principal, principle,
Further work on word origin, specifically words from Latin and Greek languages.
Continue exploring changing the meaning of root words through adding different suffixes and prefixes.
Year 6
Punctuation
and
Grammar
Further work on word origin, specifically words from Latin and Greek languages.
Use of a hyphen to indicate compound adjectives, such a little-used car, not little, used car
Continue work on commonly misspelt and easily confused words.
Continue exploring changing the meaning of root words through adding different suffixes and prefixes.
Year 5
Play with sentence order, exploring how changes affect the reader.
Identify prepositions and experiment with placing theses in different positions within a sentence.
Use a dictionary and thesaurus to define words and expand known vocabulary.
Use the term antonym for words that are opposite in meaning, and synonym for words that have the same meaning.
Introduce concept of ambiguity when a sentence is left in the air.
Continue work on modal verbs to indicate possibility alongside adverbial such as perhaps, maybe, probably.
Avoid double negatives; know that ‘neither’ correlates with nor and ‘either with or.
Identify where apostrophes are used to indicate possession or contraction.
Year 6
Use a dictionary and thesaurus to define words and expand known vocabulary, and to support the collection of a wide variety of words in writing.
Confidently use the words antonym and synonym.
Relative clauses (one that begin with who, whose, which, where, why, that)
Use who’s and whose correctly
Revise modal verbs to indicate possibility alongside adverbial such as perhaps, maybe, probably.
Introduce the term determiner. Definite and indefinite article.
Achieve competence in subject/verb agreement.
Identify formal and informal styles. Begin to use formal Standard English.
Show how the hyphen can be used to avoid ambiguity, eg man eating shark, as opposed to a man-eating shark.