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| Term 3
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Fiction and
Poetry | - Short story: “Gregory Cool”
- Poetry
- character sketches
- story settings
| | - Reading Challenge
- Novel: "The Iron Man"
- Poetry
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Non-fiction | | - Explanatory texts
- Ancient Egypt
| - A variety of non-fiction from the library
- Varied texts from teacher resource books
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Related activities | - Investigating character & setting
- Presenting a point of view (PC, diary)
- Features of instructional texts
- Clear set of instructions
- Features & structure of non-fiction books
- Purpose of paragraphs in non-fiction
- Research skills: scanning, annotating
- Patterns and vocabulary in poetry
| - Plan, draft & edit a story
- Paragraphs in story writing
- Narrative order
- Key features of explanatory texts
- Understand terms: fact and opinion
- Discuss personal poetic preferences
- Figurative language in poetry and prose
| - Finding out more about a popular author
- Research skills: scanning, annotating
- Features of play scripts
- Discussions & arguments
- Persuasive writing (letters) Presenting a point of view
- Cultural differences demonstrated in stories
- Main issues of a story (e.g. character facing a dilemma)
- Reading challenge over a number of weeks
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Sentence work
Punctuation, parts of speech, word order | - Re-read own writing for sense & accuracy
- Editing skills
- Joining sentences using a wide range of connectives
- Tenses (past, present, future)
- Accurate use of full stops & capital letters
| - Re-read own writing for sense & accuracy
- Editing skills
- Joining sentences using a wide range of connectives
- Apostrophes
- Placing commas appropriately in texts
- Identifying boundaries between separate sentences
- Accurate use of apostrophes, commas, full stops & capital letters
- Speech punctuation
| - Re-read own writing for sense & accuracy
- Editing skills
- Joining sentences using a wide range of connectives
- Accurate use of apostrophes, commas, full stops & capital letters
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Word work
Spelling, vocabulary | - Weekly spelling lists
- Independent spelling strategies
- Identifying individual sounds in speech and writing
- Identifying syllabic patterns in multi-syllabic words
- Recognition of a variety of common letter strings
- Suffixes
- ‘High frequency’ words
- Homophones
- Connectives
- Compound nouns
- Regular and irregular past tenses
- ‘Powerful’ verbs and adjectives
- Difference between noun, adjective & verb
| - Weekly spelling lists
- Independent spelling strategies
- Identifying individual sounds in speech and writing
- Identifying syllabic patterns in multi-syllabic words
- Recognition of a variety of common letter strings
- Suffixes
- ‘High frequency’ words
- Homophones
- Connectives
- Adverbs
- Alternative words & expressions
- Adding interest and accuracy
| - Weekly spelling lists
- Independent spelling strategies
- Identifying individual sounds in speech and writing
- Identifying syllabic patterns in multi-syllabic words
- Recognition of a variety of common letter strings
- Suffixes
- High frequency words
- Homophones
- Connectivees
- Word endings: plurals
- Word enings: verbs
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