Carlton Hill Primary School

Poetry:  Amulet (1 week)

Stimulus: ‘Amulet’ by Ted Hughes

Purpose and Audience: write a new poem in the style of ‘Amulet’ using the poetic pattern

Key knowledge and skills:

• recite a poem using intonation to add meaning
• use precise nouns and rich descriptive language
• use the pattern and style of a known poem

Poetry:  The Kraken (1 week)

Stimulus: ‘The Kraken’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Purpose and Audience: Write a poem that is rich in imagery

Key knowledge and skills:

• understand the term ‘imagery’

• recite a poem using intonation to add meaning

• make choices about the use of rich vocabulary and figurative language

Poetry:  Last night I saw the city breathing (1 week)

Stimulus: ‘Last night I saw… ’ by Andrew Fusek-Peters

Purpose and Audience: write a poem about your local area to be displayed in your local area

Key knowledge and skills:

• recite a poem using intonation to add meaning
• revisit the term ‘imagery’; use personification, metaphor and simile
• propose changes to vocabulary and punctuation to clarify meaning

Non-Fiction: Information page (4 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘Explore! Romans’ by Jane Bingham

Purpose and Audience: create an information page about Viking life – make your page inviting for KS2

Key knowledge and skills:

• research an area of personal interest
• learn to structure a cohesive information paragraph
• use relative clauses to add information (who, which, where, when, whose, that)
• use brackets indicate parenthesis

Fiction: Diary (3 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘The Kraken’ by Gary Crew and Marc McBride

Purpose and Audience: Write diary entries from the point of view of characters from the book.

Key knowledge and skills:

• empathise with characters through drama
• revisit subordination
• use adverbials to indicate doubt and uncertainty (perhaps, surely)
• continue to experiment with parenthesis (brackets, dashes, commas)

Non-Fiction: Information booklet (3 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘Population and Settlement’ (Athens extract) by Izzi Howell

Purpose and Audience: create a promotional booklet to attract people into your newly designed future city

Key knowledge and skills:

•     plan work by noting initial ideas and research where necessary

• carefully consider how awareness of audience influences language choices
• use further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader [headings, bullet points, underlining]

Fiction: Legend - Beowulf (3 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘Beowulf’ by by A. Horowitz

Purpose and Audience: write a legend and present it in role as Viking storytellers.

Key knowledge and skills:

• understand the tradition of oral story telling

• explore the techniques authors use to create setting and atmosphere throughout a story
• make careful choices when using figurative language
• continue to use subordination effectively

Non-Fiction: How are forces used in everyday life? (4 weeks)

Stimulus: Powerful Forces by Jon Richards

Purpose and Audience: Pick a force (thrust, drag) and create a presentation for a year 4 audience explaining how we use it

Key knowledge and skills:

• present an explanation in a lively, informative way
• build on prior learning about ‘cause and effect’ words
• use devices to build cohesion within a paragraph then, after that, this, firstly]

Non-Fiction: Letters to Greta (3 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’ by Greta Thunberg

Purpose and Audience: write an open letter to Greta (to be published online) that persuades others to join in and make a difference

Key knowledge and skills:

• know that people post open letters online to contribute to global debate

• build on previously learned persuasive devices (counter argument)
• build on previously learned language of cause and effect

Poetry:  Civil War on the Moon (1 week)

Stimulus: ‘Civil War on the Moon’ by Ted Hughes

Purpose and Audience: write a new poem in the style of Ted Hughes and contribute to a class collection

Key knowledge and skills:

• perform a poem as part of a group
• identify ‘meaning breakdown’ and re-use new vocabulary
• peer-assess writing and refine vocabulary choices

Poetry:  What I love about school (1 week)

Stimulus: ‘What I love about school’ by Roger McGough

Purpose and Audience: through poetry, tell the class a hobby that you simultaneously love and hate

Key knowledge and skills:

• recite a poem using intonation to add meaning
• use the pattern and structure of a known poem to express your own ideas to an audience
• propose changes to vocabulary and punctuation to clarify meaning

 Poetry:  The Highwayman (2 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes

Purpose and Audience: rewrite the poem from a different narrative perspective (Bess) for a modern audience

Key knowledge and skills:

• infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions
• consider different accounts of the same event and discuss viewpoints
• understand and use wide range of vocabulary and use simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia

Fiction: Suspense - Object in the Woods (3 weeks)

Stimulus: Extract from ‘Sick Building’ by Paul Magrs and ‘A fire in the forest’ by W. W. E. Ross (poem)

Purpose and Audience: Write a first person narrative journey ending in the discovery of an alien object.

Key knowledge and skills:

• know some ways that authors create suspense
• use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility
• use technical, scientific vocabulary in narrative writing

• use dashes to indicate parenthesis and interrupt a sentence

 Fiction: Traditional Tale – a warning story (3 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘The Asrai’ by Pat Thomas

Purpose and Audience: Write a traditional ‘warning’ story that would excite a Year 6 audience. Publish on a blog and receive feedback from older children.

Key knowledge and skills:

• know that folk tales often teach us right and wrong
• link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time [for example, later], place [for example, nearby]
• revisit speech punctuation and explore ways of developing reporting clauses

Fiction: The Highwayman (3 weeks)

Stimulus: ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes

Purpose and Audience: write a newspaper report using information from a poem

Key knowledge and skills:

•  know some journalistic techniques (editorial comment, direct quotes, reported speech)
• continue to develop cohesion within a paragraph
• continue use relative clauses to add information (who, which, where, when, whose, that)