Term
Fiction
Plan 1A: Classic fiction
Required texts:
Non-fiction
Poetry
Plan 1A: Recounts
Required texts:
Plan 1A: Slam poetry
Required texts:
UFOs and Aliens: Investigating Extraterrestrial Visitors
– Extreme! by Paul Mason
UFO Diary by Satoshi Kitamura
You wait till I’m older than you by Michael Rosen
The Works and Read Me collections
A variety of poems provided
Description:
Description:
Using the context of UFOs, chn explore recounts:
investigating genuine documents; discussing famous
sightings & researching notorious hoaxes. Chn write a
diary entry and create their own hoax UFO photo and
report. A presentation to parents completes the unit.
Study a slam poem (a form of performance poetry) &
other poems about what to do when you grow up. Chn
write an extra verse about their dreams. Use poems
about not knowing what to write to stimulate writing
about everyday little things. Hold a poetry slam!
1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using a
range of conjunctions to create compound and
complex sentences.
2. Use relative clauses.
3. Use commas correctly, including to clarify meaning,
avoid ambiguity and to indicate parenthesis.
4. Use correct punctuation to indicate speech.
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using
adverbials of time, space and number
2. Use commas correctly, including to clarify meaning,
avoid ambiguity and to indicate parenthesis.
3. Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated
information concisely
1. Recognise vocabulary and structures appropriate for
formal and written speech, and the differences
between this and spoken speech, including the use of
contractions.
2. Use correct punctuation to indicate speech.
Plan 2A: Biographies and autobiographies
Required texts:
Plan 2A: Instructions & Explanations
Required texts:
Plan 2A: Classic poems
Required texts:
Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Singing for Mrs Pettigrew/Homecoming by Michael
Morpurgo
Various biographies of two authors
Examples of instructional and explanation text are
provided
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
Description:
Description:
Hover boards and Doggie Umbrellas meet new-fangled
escalators and dial telephones in a unit, which explores
instructions and explanations in the context of
changing technology. Chn try pitching in the Dragon's
Den and create guides for futuristic travel.
Carroll’s Walrus and the Carpenter stimulate
performance, discussion and persuasive writing, in this
poetry unit. Belloc's Cautionary Tales provide cause
for debate and the chn end the unit writing their own
modern day cautionary poems.
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Use brackets, dashes and commas to indicate
parenthesis.
2. Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark
boundaries between main causes
3. Use colons to introduce lists
1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using and
choosing descriptive language; adjectives, adverbs and
powerful nouns and verbs.
2. Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated
information concisely
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling
Description:
Chn explore the charm and challenge of classic fiction.
Chn write a modern-day Jungle Book story, Just So
Stories diary entries, and tell outrageous lies, courtesy
of conjunctions. The unit ends with chn performing
their own Just So Story in Kipling's style.
Grammar focus:
Description:
Use biographies of Roald Dahl & Michael Morpurgo
(both books & online) & their autobiographical writing
to identify features of biographies & autobiographies.
Use the texts to study dialogue, noun phrases &
complex sentences. Write autobiographies online.
Grammar focus:
1. Learn the grammar in App.2 specifically using a
range of conjunctions to create compound and
complex sentences.
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2. Use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated
information concisely
4. Punctuate bullet points consistently
3. Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity
Fiction
Plan 3A: Genre fiction
Required texts:
Non-fiction
Plan 3A: Argument and debate
Required texts:
Poetry
Plan 3A: Classic narrative and oral poetry
Required texts:
Short by Kevin Crossley Holland
Arguments for and against use of CCTV cameras
(provided)
The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley
Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott
Description:
Description:
Identify features of argument texts & discuss
differences between facts & opinions. Find out how to
present opinions as if they were facts. Study formal &
informal speech. Research for & hold a class debate.
Chn then write & edit their own argument text.
Chn learn the classic narrative poem Ballad of
Charlotte Dymond to recite & identify features. Use
role play to study the characters in depth. Compare
with Lochinvar & explore relative clauses. Then use
Chocolate Cake to inspire their narrative poems.
1. Adverbials of time, place and number.
2. Use elaborated language of description, including
expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbials and a
variety of subordinate clauses, including relative
clauses.
3. Use semi-colons to mark boundary between
independent clauses.
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Formal and informal speech and writing. Use of
subjunctive forms.
2. Use bullet points, colons and semi-colons.
1. Use commas to clarify meaning.
2. Use elaborated language of description, including
expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbial and a
variety of subordinate clauses, including relative
clauses.
Plan 4A: Drama (Shakespeare)
Required texts:
Plan 4A: Reports and Journalistic Writing
Required texts:
Plan 4A: Poetic Style
Required texts:
Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays by Marcia Williams
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Description:
Description:
You Wait Till I’m Older Than You by Michael Rosen
Collected Poems by Roger McGough
Introduce chn to Shakespeare using Marcia Williams’
Mr William Shakespeare’s Plays – Romeo & Juliet +
Macbeth. Investigate diff ways of writing dialogue inc.
playscript layout & the use of informal language. Chn
write a 60 sec version of part of Macbeth.
Use Tuesday by David Wiesner to study report writing.
Look at different ways of writing speech – playscripts,
speech bubbles, direct & reported speech. Compare
formal & informal writing including use of passive
voice. Chn write newspaper reports.
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Use dialogue, differences between spoken and
written speech. Punctuation to indicate direct speech.
1. Dialogue, direct/indirect speech punctuation.
Reported speech.
Description:
Look at the genre of short stories using Short! by Kevin
Crossley-Holland. Chn investigate the use of adverbials
to link sentences or paragraphs together. Chn plan &
write short mystery stories elaborating by use of
descriptive words & further details.
Grammar focus:
Description:
Chn hear & respond to a range of poems from two
well-known poets. Explore the use of language & how
the writers imply deeper meanings & research the
poets on the internet. Finally chn write their own freeverse poems inspired by those they have read.
Grammar focus:
1. Dialogue, direct speech punctuation.
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2. Formal and informal speech and writing. Use of
subjunctive forms.
3. Use commas to clarify meaning.
2. Use of passive form to present information.
3. Use semi-colons and dashes to mark boundaries
between independent clauses.
4. Use commas to clarify meaning.
2. Use commas to clarify meaning.
3. Use and understand grammatical terminology.
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Fiction
Plan 5A: Classic novels
Required texts:
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, (Graphic novel)
illustrated by David Wenzel, adapted by Charles
Dixon (2006)
Description:
Non-fiction
Plan 5A: Persuasive writing
Required texts:
Poetry
Plan 5A: Debate poetry and poetry that tells a
story
Useful texts:
Through The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, investigate
settings, character development, dialogue & narrative
style. Writing includes: dramatisation, playing with
point-of-view & writing a 'Lost Tale'. Grammar
includes: complex sentences, relative clauses and
elaboration.
Grammar focus:
1. Writing complex and compound sentences
2. Use elaborated language of description, including
expanded noun phrases, adjectives, adverbials and,
particularly, relative clauses.
3. Use accurate sentence and speech punctuation.
Various persuasive texts (provided)
Description:
Times are a changin' as chn explore how to win hearts
& minds. Chn analyse adverts and political speeches,
adapt protest songs and manipulate with modal verbs.
Chn write persuasively & the unit ends in a political
rally. Who will win: parents or chn?
Grammar focus:
1. Understand and use modal verbs in persuasive
writing
2. Use apostrophes correctly.
3. Use correct sentence punctuation.
The Dispute of Coffee and Tea Hamilton Group
Readers
Sensational! poems inspired by the five senses chosen
by Roger McGough, Macmillan,
Description:
Read a Gulf ‘debate’ poem about a fierce dispute
between coffee & tea. Identify features of poems that
tell a story. Chn read & compare other poems about
drinks. They create & perform a playscript for the
dispute, then write a poem about a drink.
Grammar focus:
1. Use elaborated descriptive language.
2. Use expanded noun phrases.
3. Use and understand grammatical terminology.
Plan 6A: Genre fiction – science fiction
Required texts:
Plan 6A: Non-chronological Reports
Required texts:
Plan 6A: Power of Imagery
Required texts:
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan, Templar
Publishing.
Various reports (provided)
The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
(Animated Tale – see resources)
Description:
Use texts about iPads & iPhones to introduce features
of non-chronological reports. Chn create a new section
Chn read and analyse a selection of short stories from
Description:
Description:
Using a range of sea poems (provided) & The
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Non-fiction
Poetry
Tales of Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. They explore
the structure of short stories & the use of modal verbs
& dialogue. Chn write a drama based on one they have
heard & then a new story in the Shaun Tan-style.
for a BBC online activity about reports using BOS/
QuAD techniques. Then chn research information
about another electronic device & write reports.
Grammar focus:
1. Begin to understand the use of active and passive
verbs, especially the use of the passive form in reports.
2. Recognise and use a past participle.
3. Use semi-colons, colons and dashes appropriately in
reports.
4. Use bullet points in reports.
1. Use dialogue, recognise differences between spoken
and written speech.
2. Use speech punctuation to indicate direct speech.
2. Understand and use modal verbs.
Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy, explore
the use of imagery & description. Then discuss how to
use language to evoke feelings & produce impressions.
Chn draft & write their own poem about the Titanic.
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Use fronted adverbials and non-finite verbs to start a
sentence.
2. Use commas after fronted adverbials
3. Use elaborated description, including adjectives and
adverbs, and subordinate clauses.
Year 5 and 6 - subject to change
See below for Year 6:
Year 6 Literacy Units – linked to Hamilton Trust (HT)
Narrative
Detective/Crime
Science Fiction
Classic Fiction
A Fiction 3 (HT)
A Fiction 6 (HT)
A Fiction 1 –
Flashbacks/time
shift
Novel as a theme
B Fiction 2
Classic (HT)
NonFiction
Poetry
Persuasion
Explanation text
A Non-fiction 5
(HT)
A Non-fiction 2
(HT)
Discussion
Recount
Biography and
Autobiography
A Fiction 2 and
non-fiction (HT)
Information text
hybrid
A Non-fiction 6
(HT)
Poems free verse
Classic narrative poetry
Poems with imagery
A Poetry 4 (HT)
B Poetry 2 (HT)
A Poetry 5 Debate (HT)