KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on the Year 6 unit, 'Climate emergency: journalistic report writing', in which pupils got into role as a journalist writing a report based on the climate emergency. Here, pupils use a fictional event from the novel 'When the Sky Falls' to write a narrative climax and a journalistic report, using climactic narrative techniques like short sentences and fast time adverbials in the first and key journalistic phraseology and passive voice in the second. This unit's outcomes can be used for pupils' KS2 writing portfolios as they demonstrate all taught cohesive devices.

1. Understanding the structure and historical context of ‘When the Sky Falls’
2. Generating ideas for a narrative climax scene in 'When The Sky Falls'
3. Planning a narrative climax scene in 'When The Sky Falls'
4. Writing the first half of a narrative climax scene in 'When The Sky Falls'
5. Writing the second half of a narrative climax scene in 'When The Sky Falls'
6. Generating ideas for a journalistic report based on 'When the Sky Falls'
7. Planning a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'
8. Writing the first half of a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'
9. Writing the second half of a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'
10. Self-editing a journalistic report based on 'When The Sky Falls'