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'Ada Twist Scientist': reading and writing

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  • Developing fiction writing
  • Fiction reading spine

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In this unit, pupils will engage in the story, 'Ada Twist Scientist'. Pupils will compare stories by the same author and share their preferences about which book they'd like to read. Pupils write character descriptions of Ada Twist and then apply this to writing a description of themselves.

This unit uses and applies all grammatical and sentence building work to narrative character descriptions as well as a personal description of themselves. If pupils completed the 'A Superhero Like You' unit, it will be an opportunity to compare their character descriptions of themselves at the start of the year to now, as well as measure their progress over the year in writing. This unit will prepare pupils to write descriptions of characters and settings in Year 2.

  1. Characters and plot in the story 'Ada Twist, Scientist'
  2. The theme of resilience in 'Ada Twist, Scientist'
  3. Using evidence from 'Ada Twist, Scientist' to write a character description
  4. Using descriptive language to describe yourself
  5. Exploring aspirations and the future: 'Ada Twist, Scientist'
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