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The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
DAY 6
DAY 7
DAY 8
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DAY 9
DAY 10
DAY 11
2
Lesson
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 1 - L.O. Write effective sentences for a problem of an adventure story.
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Experience
Share a range of forest and wood scenes during the snow. Look closely and
analyse time lapse photography of nature during Winter. Sort and organise
a range of animals that live in the woodland and discuss there natural
features that help them to survive. Discuss temperature in snowy conditions
and consider a range of ways to keep warm and if any of these would be
suitable.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 2 - L.O. To write effective sentences for the opening of our legend.
Steps to Success:
* Repetition for effect
* Adverbial - where
* Noun Phrase
Initiate
Repetition for effect
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Model
Enable
Repetition for effect
To write three sentences.
Teacher Models - He flew over the
LA to have a word bank.
HA to deepen the moment
(adverbs to describe how he
Page 1 - Story tell opening- don't
show the picture.
Far, far away, long, long ago, high,
high above a crow flew.
Children find the pattern of the
repeated words.
Show image 1.
He flew over _______ forest
big, frost, frozen- forest
blue, frozen, sparkling- river
tall, thin, - trees
Adverbial - where
Page 2 Show and talk about picture 2.
frozen, frozen forest.
He flew over the winding, winding
flew)
river.
He flew over the towering, towering
trees.
Adverbial - where
Start with a prepositional
Teacher Models - Next to the tree,
the forest animals gathered
together because...
HA - use high level vocab/add
a feeling sentence.
Build a bank of positioning words.
phrase.
Adverbial of where,
Down by
Next to,
At the side of
Below the,
By the
Beside the
Verbs to show how the animals are
together.
huddled, crouched, cuddled, grouped,
LA - word banks on tables.
Finish the sentence with a
description of what the weather is
like.
gathered
Noun phrase
Teacher in role as Owl (Owl hat
and glasses) Owl explains to class
the perilous journey.
Children
huddled like the animals.
Collect words:
perilous, treacherous, terrifying,
dangerous, horrendous.
Perform as a chorus- children
repeat:
very, very perilous.
Noun phrase
Sentence: Expanded noun phrases for
description and specification
Teacher Models - Swoop,
whoosh, flap (provided)
The owl declared a perilous
journey, a very, very perilous
journey.
Write 3 sentences using
repeated phrases.
LA - word banks
HA - deepen the momentNoun phrase for the owl.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 3 - L.O. To write effective sentences for our story.
Steps to Success:
* Adverbial for what
* Drama to empathise with a character
* Question and a exclamation mark
Initiate
Model
Adverbial for what
Adverbial for what
Share page 3
Gather alternatives for
looking(higher/lower)
Peering, glancing, staring.
Text: Use of the progressive form of verbs
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Enable
Write a complex sentence
in the present and past tense to mark
staring with an 'ing' word,
thoughtful choices of words.
Teacher Models - Staring at the
HA - extended noun phase
Inner thought
Pupils generate the thoughts
Teacher Models - Model through
teacher talk.
The rabbit thought, I hope it's not
me that has to go on this perilous
journey.
Repeat for other animals.
Mixed ability groups.
HA- Deepen the moment.
Question and a exclamation mark
Question and a exclamation mark
Thought tap animal's inner
thoughts and gather on
Punctuation: Use of capital letters, full
Insert two animal thoughts of
Bank of adjectives to describe the
sun:
glowing, warm, setting,
shimmering.
actions in progress
distant sun, the animals
thought…
and double alternative for
thought.
thought, pondered, wondered,
cogitated, considered.
Inner thought
Recreate the scene using class
in groups.
Mini freeze frame moving into
improvisation: polar bear, wolf,
dear, owl, goat, walrus, crow,
hare.
Thomas Newman music score.
thought bubbles.
stops, question marks and exclamation
of their chosen animal.
their choice and choose two.
marks to demarcate sentences
Teacher Models - It's going to be a
long, long way, will I make it? The
walrus wondered but the brave
hare thought, how exciting, how
exciting I can do it, I can do it!
HA - Deepen the moment.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 4 - L.O. To write effective sentences for our story.
Steps to Success:
* Questions/Repetition for effect
* Adjectives
* Simile
Initiate
Model
Questions/Repetition for effect
Questions/Repetition for effect
Drama- teacher? who will do it, who
Sentence: Expanded noun phrases for
will do it, who will do it? Children
coloured crow.
download the Joseph lyrics, coat of
We
many colours. Karaoke sing Joseph.
Change words to fit with the crow.
Adjectives
Stay on page 5 with the crow
image.
Collect adjectives on feather
shapes.
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Enable
Stick new words to Joseph.
description and specification
chorus.
Introduce page 5 and the multi-
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Teacher Models - Who will do
HA- Deepen the moment.
it, who will do it, who will do it?
Rainbow Crow
(Given text stuck in books)
Adjectives
Punctuation: Apostrophes to mark where
letters are missing in spelling and to mark
Write three sentences using
two adjectives.
singular possession in nouns
Teacher Models - The crow who
was dazzling and dreamy.
The crow who is ______ and ______.
The crow who is ______ and ______.
HA - Add alliteration.
Simile
Simile
Break pupils into groups with
coloured feathers and big sugar
paper.
Sentence: How the grammatical patterns in
To write a simile using their
dazzling, dreamy, magnificent,
marvellous
soft, silky sumptuous.
Children will gather comparisons
in the world that are that colour.
a sentence indicate its function as a
tables colour.
statement, question, exclamation or
command
Teacher Models - The crow's
feathers were as red as
shimmering rubies.
Mixed ability tables.
HA Deepen the moment.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 5 - L.O.
To write effective sentences for our story.
Steps to Success:
* Verbs
* Vocabulary/Subordinating conjunction
* Vocabulary/Subordinating conjunction
Initiate
Model
Verbs
Verbs
Provide a group with a
collection of jumbled words for
Autumn/non Autumn. Groups
Sentence: Subordination (using when, if,
sort.
Collect flying words: swooped,
glided, soared, flew
that, because) and co-ordination (using or,
and, but)
Teacher Models - He swooped
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Enable
Choose a precise verb,
preposition and use the
subordinating conjunctions.
HA - extend vocabulary.
through the golden, path of
leaves when it was Autumn.
Vocabulary/Subordinating conjunction
Vocabulary/Subordinating conjunction
Provide a group with a
collection of jumbled words for
Winter/non Winter. Groups
sort.
Sentence: Subordination (using when, if,
that, because) and co-ordination (using or,
and, but)
Choose a precise verb,
preposition and use the
subordinating conjunctions.
Teacher Models - He swooped
over the frozen river when it
HA - extend vocabulary.
Vocabulary/Subordinating conjunction
Vocabulary/Subordinating conjunction
Provide a group with a
collection of jumbled words for
Sentence: Subordination (using when, if,
Choose a precise verb,
was winter.
Summer/non Summer. Groups
sort.
that, because) and co-ordination (using or,
and, but)
Teacher Models - He swooped
by the vibrant, green meadows
when it was Summer.
preposition and use the
subordinating conjunctions.
HA - extend vocabulary.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 6 - L.O.
To write effective sentences for our story.
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Steps to Success:
* Dialogue
* Commas in a list
* Command and questions
Initiate
Dialogue
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Model
Enable
Dialogue
Discuss the text.
Emphasis on the inverted
commas- show and ask
Teacher Models - Paired talk
children to spot the inverted
commas.
into a class discuss about what
we have found out.
Mixed ability.
Commas in a list
Commas in a list
Choose three adjectives for
Read page 7, show no pictures.
Show the large image of the
sun- gather a bank of
adjectives.
bright, light, golden,
shimmering, splendid,
Command and question
Show the crow image,
Question words: will, what, can.
Create a bank of ly words:
graciously, timidly, politely,
grumpily, angrily, bossily,
abruptly.
Bank of bossy verbs: grab, grasp,
take, hold, use, carry.
Punctuation: Commas to separate items in
a list
HA- Deepen the moment.
our end list and use and.
Teacher Models - The crow
spoke to the sun, golden,
HA - more ambitious words.
LA - word bank.
Command and question
Write speech to include
magnificent and splendid.
Sentence: How the grammatical patterns in
a sentence indicate its function as a
adverbs.
statement, question, exclamation or
command
Teacher Models - "Will you
help us and melt the snow?"
asked the crow timidly.
"Take this stick of fire," said the
sun angrily.
LA - Adverb choices.
HA-Deepen the moment
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 7 - L.O. Write effective sentences for a problem of an adventure story.
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Experience
Through drama and warm sunshine themed music discuss the effect of
warmth for the animal community. Through drama generate their feelings
and dialogue during Summer days. Show a range of photographs of forests
during a storm use freeze frame tecniques to explore animal feeling and
dialogue. Use sound effects to recreate the storm build the tension of the
animals fear about the storm and anxiousness during times of weather
change.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 8 - L.O. To write effective sentences for our story.
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Steps to Success:
* Onomatopoeia
* Alliteration
* Adjectives
Initiate
Onomatopoeia
Listen to a soundscape of a
storm.
Gather a bank of
onomatopoeic words: snap,
crash, roar, splash, howl, bang,
angry words- mad, irrate,
frustrated, furious, cross.
Alliteration
Share the page the whole paragraph.
Read it and find their favourite
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Onomatopoeia
Teacher Models - CRASH!
furious, treacherous.
Collect verbs for what happens to the
crow.
tossed, tumbled, twisted, turned,
Enable
Write three onomatopoeic words
followed by a sentence about the
storm.
HA-Deepen the moment.
HOWL!
ROAR!
The storm was angry.
Alliteration
To write a sentence using a powerful
description and specification
words to describe the movements of
Sentence: Expanded noun phrases for
adjective for the storm and two
the crow.
words/phrases.
Storm - terrible, tremendous, mighty,
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Teacher Models - Through
powerful storms he shivered
HA - to use alliteration.
Adjectives
Pupils to consruct a positive
and shuddered.
twirled, shook, shivered, shuddered.
Adjectives
Collect dirty words on black
feathers.
dirty, singed, sooty, blackened,
grubby
Sentence: Expanded noun phrases for
description of crow's feathers and
description and specification
position as an opposite after they
Teacher Models - Yellow and
orange became grey and sooty.
Red and purple turned to dirt and
dingy.
Blue and green became blackened
and singed.
HA-Deepen the moment.
have been destroyed.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 9 - L.O. To write effective sentences for our story.
Steps to Success:
* Adjectives/expanded noun phrase
* Feelings
* Question in speech
Initiate
Model
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Enable
Add in description for the fire.
Adjectives/expanded noun phrase
Adjectives/expanded noun phrase
Provided sentence: Courageous
and undaunted he pressed on
alone. When he arrived to his
forest home, he started a fire.
Story tell rich description of the
fire.
Hand out 3 flame shapes each- for
them to add description of fire.
Make an instant fire shape.
Sentence: Expanded noun phrases for
Teacher Models - It was..............
HA - add a simile
expanded noun phrases.
Feelings
Feelings
Use two feeling words to start
Teacher Models - Intrigued,
excited, the
HA- ambitious vocab and
extended ideas.
Question in Speech
Write a question that the
Set up animal scene around camp
fire.
Using large hearts.
excited, intrigued, surprised,
relieved, amazed, thankful, cosy.
description and specification
animals..........................
Question in Speech
Whispers around the camp fire.
Asking questions bout crow and
his journey.
Where did he go?
How did he manage it?
What did he see?
Collect speech verbs: muttered,
mumbled, chattered, whispered,
asked.
Sentence: How the grammatical patterns in
a sentence indicate its function as a
statement, question, exclamation or
command
Teacher Models - What had
happened to him? The animals
asked.
the sentence and finish the
sentence.
animals are asking using
powerful speech verbs.
HA -Deepen the moment.
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Day 10 - L.O.
Write effective sentences for a problem of an adventure story.
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Experience
Explore the aspect of the book when the crow feels less beautiful and has no friends. Re-enact
through drama overheard conversations of what the crows peers are saying about him. Use this
as an opportunity to work on PSHE. Show children two apples and discuss similarities and
differences. Unknown to the children you have dropped the apple twenty times and bruised it
internally. Get the children to see that the apples look the same but when apple B is sliced open it
is brown and damaged, this is the effect of words on people. There are no outward wounds but
there are most certainly internal ones.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Day 11 - L.O. To write effective sentences for our story.
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Steps to Success:
* Repetition for effect
* Description
* Moral
Initiate
Repetition for effect
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Model
Enable
Repetition for effect
Use repetition from the
beginning in their books.
Teacher Models - Far, far away,
HA -Deepen the moment.
Description
Description
Repetition for the structure
using compliments.
HA - Deepen the moment.
honourable, undaunted,
Teacher Models - The sun told
the crow, you
Moral
Write the moral in their own
Read all of page 11 and discuss
what is happening.
Find the repeated given
What nice things can the sun
say- compliment the crow.
brave, strong, kind to his
friends, valiant, courageous,
Moral
Share the luminous picture.
Read the last sentence. Generate
the moral of the story. Give them a
red heart to write in.
long, long ago, high, high
above the sun rose.
beginning of the story in
books.
are_________________
Punctuation: Apostrophes to mark where
letters are missing in spelling and to mark
words.
singular possession in nouns
Teacher models - It doesn't
matter what you look like it's
what is inside that matters.
HA - Deepen the moment.
The Crow's Tale by Naomi Howarth
Teacher Models
Day 1 Experience Day
Share a range of forest and wood scenes during the snow. Look closely and analyse time
lapse photography of nature during Winter. Sort and organise a range of animals that live
in the woodland and discuss there natural features that help them to survive. Discuss
temperature in snowy conditions and consider a range of ways to keep warm and if any
of these would be suitable.
Day 2
1.
He flew over the frozen, frozen forest. He flew over the winding, winding river. He
flew over the towering, towering trees.
2.
Next to the tree, the forest animals gathered together because... Finish the
sentence with a description of what the weather is like.
3.
Swoop, whoosh, flap (provided) The owl declared a perilous journey, a very, very
perilous journey.
Day 3
1.
Staring at the distant sun, the animals thought…
2.
The rabbit thought, I hope it's not me that has to go on this perilous journey. Repeat
for other animals.
3.
It's going to be a long, long way, will I make it? The walrus wondered but the brave
hare thought, how exciting, how exciting I can do it, I can do it!
Day 4
1.
Who will do it, who will do it, who will do it?
2.
The crow who was dazzling and dreamy. The crow who is ______ and ______.
The crow who is ______ and ______.
3.
The crow's feathers were as red as shimmering rubies.
Day 5
1.
He swooped through the golden, path of leaves when it was Autumn.
2.
He swooped over the frozen river when it was winter.
3.
He swooped by the vibrant, green meadows when it was Summer.
Day 6
1.
The crow spoke to the sun, golden, magnificent and splendid.
2.
"Will you help us and melt the snow?" asked the crow timidly. "Take this stick of
fire," said the sun angrily.
Day 7 Experience Day
Through drama and warm sunshine themed music discuss the effect of warmth for the
animal community. Through drama generate their feelings and dialogue during Summer
days. Show a range of photographs of forests during a storm use freeze frame
techniques to explore animal feeling and dialogue. Use sound effects to recreate the
storm build the tension of the animals fear about the storm and anxiousness during times
of weather change.
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Day 8
1.
CRASH! HOWL! ROAR! The storm was angry.
Through powerful storms he shivered and shuddered.
2.
3.
Yellow and orange became grey and sooty. Red and purple turned to dirt and
dingy. Blue and green became blackened and singed.
Day 9
It was..............
1.
2.
Intrigued, excited, the animals..........................
3.
What had happened to him? The animals asked.
Day 10 Experience Day
Explore the aspect of the book when the crow feels less beautiful and has no friends. Reenact through drama overheard conversations of what the crows peers are saying about
him. Use this as an opportunity to work on PSHE. Show children two apples and discuss
similarities and differences. Unknown to the children you have dropped the apple twenty
times and bruised it internally. Get the children to see that the apples look the same but
when apple B is sliced open it is brown and damaged, this is the effect of words on
people. There are no outward wounds but there are most certainly internal ones.
Day 11
Far, far away, long, long ago, high, high above the sun rose.
1.
2.
The sun told the crow, you are_________________
3.
It doesn't matter what you look like it's what is inside that matters.
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