KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of narrative writing skills built in the Year 3 unit ''The BFG': reading and narrative writing'. In that unit, pupils learnt to write a narrative opening and build-up with increasing levels of sophistication and authorial intent; here, pupils write a complete narrative, using the opening, build-up, climax, resolution structure, to write their own version of a short film. This is more sophisticated than the KS1-level beginning, middle, end structure. This unit prepares pupils for the Year 3 unit 'The Iron Man': narrative writing'.

1. Developing initial responses to 'The Man on the Moon'
2. Summarising and sequencing the story of 'The Man on the Moon'
3. Generating ambitious vocabulary for narrative writing
4. Planning the opening of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
5. Writing the opening of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
6. Planning the build-up of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
7. Writing the build-up of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
8. Planning the climax of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
9. Writing the climax of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
10. Planning the resolution of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
11. Writing the resolution of a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'
12. Editing a narrative based on 'The Man on the Moon'