'Anna Hibiscus' Song': reading and writing
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' understanding of adjectives and nouns, teaching them to create expanded noun phrases with commas to describe characters and settings. Pupils will carefully choose adjectives to write expanded noun phrases and then learn how to join two ideas using 'and'. They will also learn that we can use adverbs to describe verbs. This will prepare pupils for the next unit, 'Looking after Pets', where they will use a comma to write a list of nouns and continue to practise joining two ideas together using 'and'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
- Ability to read and write some common exception words.
- Compose simple sentences by saying out loud what they are going to write and re-reading back to check it makes sense,
- Use adverbials of time at the start of a sentence.
- Understand that an adjective describes a noun.
- Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
- Ability to sequence sentences to form short narratives.
- Ability to write in the simple past tense by adding -ed to verbs.
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' understanding of adjectives and nouns, teaching them to create expanded noun phrases with commas to describe characters and settings. Pupils will carefully choose adjectives to write expanded noun phrases and then learn how to join two ideas using 'and'. They will also learn that we can use adverbs to describe verbs. This will prepare pupils for the next unit, 'Looking after Pets', where they will use a comma to write a list of nouns and continue to practise joining two ideas together using 'and'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
- Ability to read and write some common exception words.
- Compose simple sentences by saying out loud what they are going to write and re-reading back to check it makes sense,
- Use adverbials of time at the start of a sentence.
- Understand that an adjective describes a noun.
- Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
- Ability to sequence sentences to form short narratives.
- Ability to write in the simple past tense by adding -ed to verbs.
Reading, writing & oracy
'Anna Hibiscus' Song': reading and writing
In this unit, pupils explore the characters, setting and plot in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'. They apply their learning of adjectives to writing about characters and settings. In scaffolded writing tasks, they use adverbs to describe characters' actions, leading to writing a letter about their family.
10 lessons in unit
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