KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of story writing fom the Year 2 unit ''Lucky Dip': narrative writing'. Here, pupils write their own version of two sections of this more sophisticated narrative: the opening and the build-up. Focused teaching centres around how to set a scene and how to increase tension, set within key Year 3 level sentence structures. Pupils are also expected to write more sentences per paragraph than in Year 2 narrative writing units. This unit prepares pupils for further narrative writing in the Year 3 unit 'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing'.

1. Engaging with 'The BFG'
2. Engaging with the opening chapter of 'The BFG'
3. Planning the opening of 'The BFG' (part one)
4. Writing the opening of 'The BFG' (part one)
5. Planning the opening of 'The BFG' (part two)
6. Writing the opening of 'The BFG' (part two)
7. Planning the build-up of 'The BFG' (part one)
8. Writing the build-up of 'The BFG' (part one)
9. Planning the build-up of 'The BFG' (part two)
10. Writing the build-up of ‘The BFG’ (part two)
11. Peer editing a narrative scene based on 'The BFG'
12. Publishing a narrative based on 'The BFG'

• A narrative can be structured as an opening, build-up, climax and resolution.
• Each part of a story has a specific purpose and intended effect on the reader.
• The intended effect on the reader is achieved through careful vocabulary choices.
• Adjectives describe nouns and adverbials modify verbs.
• There are three main types of sentences: simple, compound and complex.
• These must be punctuated accurately with a full stop, capital letter and a comma where needed.
• An adverbial complex sentence consists of a main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
• In visual literacy, a film director intends for the audience to feel a certain way at certain points of their film.
• Careful choices around camera angles, sound and colour are made by the film director.
• Vocabulary can be chosen to mirror the film director's choices.