Literacy Matters – Support 4 Schools – National Curriculum Primary English Free Lesson Plan Units.

Literacy Matters – Support 4 Schools – National Curriculum Primary English Free Lesson Plan Units.

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Plan
Reading Teaching Objectives
Writing Teaching Objectives
Spelling Teaching Objectives
Grammar Teaching Objectives
Text Type

Y1 Traditional Tales (1)

Little Red Hen

Become very familiar with key stories, fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics.
To write a simple story, based on a traditional tale

To read and spell said, who, me, I

Narrative
Traditional Tale

Y1 Traditional Tales (2)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Recognise and join in with predictable phrases
To say out loud what they are going to write about

I can add ‘s’ to make bear plural
To know how words make a sentence
Narrative
Traditional Tale

Y2 Poetry (1)

Matilda
Author: Roald Dahl

To listen to, discuss and express views about contemporary and classic poetry
To discuss and clarify the meanings of words
To recite a section of poetry by heart demonstrating understanding through intonation and gesture

Poetry

Y2 Poetry (2)

Matilda
Author: Roald Dahl

To read aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear
To recognise simple recurring literary language in poetry

To plan or say out loud what they are going to write about
To write down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary
To evaluate writing with the teacher and other pupils
To start using some of the diagonal and horizontal strokes needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left un-joined

To use sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command
Poetry

Y3 Non Fiction (2)

All About Wolves

To retrieve and record information from non-fiction
To use contents pages and indexes to locate information
To ask questions to improve their understanding of a text

To draft and write using simple organisational devices [for example, headings and sub-headings]
To discuss and record ideas

To use prefixes (to create nouns where appropriate)
Revision of adding s, ed, ing to verbs

To use headings and sub-headings to aid presentation
Non Fiction
Non-Chronological Report

Y3 Non Fiction (3)

All About Wolves

To retrieve and record information from non-fiction
To use contents pages and indexes to locate information
To ask questions to improve their understanding of a text
To summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph

To discuss and record ideas

Revision of commas in a list
Non Fiction
Non-Chronological Report

Y4 Historical (1)

Friend or Foe
Author: Michael Morpurgo
To infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
To discuss understanding of texts and to explain the meaning of words in context
To ask questions to improve their understanding of a text

To plan writing by discussing

To use fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news
To use paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

Historical
Narrative

Y4 Historical (2)

Anne Frank
Author: David A Adler
Friend or Foe
Author: Michael Morpurgo

To discuss understanding of texts and to explain the meaning of words in context
To ask questions to improve their understanding of a text
To creating settings, characters and plot through narrative writing
To identify how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning

To assess the effectiveness of children’s own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
To organise paragraphs around a theme

To use expanded noun phrases
To use powerful verbs

Historical
Narrative

Y4 Historical (3)

The Yellow Star
Rose Blanche
Author: Ian McEwan

To discuss understanding of texts and to explain the meaning of words in context
To ask questions to improve their understanding of a text

To creating settings, characters and plot through narrative writing
To assess the effectiveness of children’s own and others’ writing and suggesting improvements
To organise paragraphs around a theme

To use fronted adverbials [for example, Later that day, I heard the bad news
To use paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme

Historical
Narrative

Y5 Stories From Other Cultures (1)

To read and discuss a wide range of fiction and increase familiarity with books from other cultures and traditions
To predict what might happen from details stated and implied
To include narrator’s viewpoint through specific detail

To note and develop initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
To assess the effectiveness of their own and others writing
To propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
To perform their own compositions, using appropriate intonation, volume and movement so that meaning is clear

To revise use of apostrophe for possession
To revise main and subordinate clauses
To use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where ,when, whose, that or with an implied (i.e. omitted) pronoun

Narrative
Letter Writing

Y5 Stories From Other Cultures (2)

To investigate a range of texts from different cultures
To identify the point of view from which a story is told and how this affects reader’s response
To consider how authors have developed characters
To plan oral retelling taking into account how authors develop characters

To perform their own compositions, using appropriate intonation, volume and movement so that meaning is clear
To note and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary

To revise prepositions
To understand and use term preposition
To revise the use of punctuation marks in complex sentences
To revise the use of the apostrophe for possession

Narrative

Y6 Antarctica – Cross Curricular

Participate in discussions about books, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously. Provide reasoned justifications for their views
To reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
Summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas
Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction

Use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs

desperate
determined
communicate
community
yacht

Layout devices, such as headings, sub-headings, columns, bullets
Cross Curricular unit – Non-Chronological ReportChronological Recount