Lessons (10)
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To listen to a story
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In this lesson, we will revisit our story map to help us to become storytellers. We will complete a plot matrix to develop our understanding.
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In this lesson, we will revisit our story map and then discover the different moods that the characters experience in the story.
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In this lesson, we will deepen our knowledge of the story, as well as focusing on the grammar rules of the four different sentence types.
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In this lesson, we will read more about the race around the world. We will make inferences and provide evidence from the story. At the end we will learn a poem about our story.
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In this lesson, we will focus on three parts of the story that have contrasting moods. We will 'box-up' our story to help us to fully understand which sections we will write about later in the unit.
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In this lesson, we will meet our mood toolkit for the first time. We will then read extracts that create different moods and use our toolkit to 'read as a writer'. We will write down any ideas that we may want to use in future lessons.
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In this lesson, we will complete a 'shared write' focusing on the library scene from our story, 'The Marriage of Ganesh'. We will use our toolkit to create a mood to move our reader.
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In this lesson, we will continue to write with the purpose of making a mood that moves our reader. We will focus on the scene where Kartikeya climbs the mountains.
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In this lesson, we will explore the scene where Kartikeya confronts his brother. We will use all of our tools from our toolkit to create a mood that moves our reader.
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