Weather: wind and hot words
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, including clever and clumsy words in the Year 3 unit 'Character: clever and clumsy words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of the weather, specifically for wind and hot scene-setting. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe settings and scenes in narrative writing, including cold, calm and stormy words, in the Year 4 unit 'Weather: cold, calm and stormy words'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Using precise vocabulary helps to write more effectively for a particular purpose.
- A synonym is a word with the same or similar meaning.
- A noun is a person, place or thing.
- An adjective describes a noun.
- Words that often appear together can be called a word pair.
- Knowing a word's most common word pairs can help us to use the word precisely and effectively.
- The vocabulary, grammar and punctuation taught in Year 3: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on previously taught vocabulary for describing characters, including clever and clumsy words in the Year 3 unit 'Character: clever and clumsy words'. Here, pupils learn new words to support the descriptive writing of the weather, specifically for wind and hot scene-setting. This unit prepares pupils for learning a wider range of vocabulary to describe settings and scenes in narrative writing, including cold, calm and stormy words, in the Year 4 unit 'Weather: cold, calm and stormy words'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Using precise vocabulary helps to write more effectively for a particular purpose.
- A synonym is a word with the same or similar meaning.
- A noun is a person, place or thing.
- An adjective describes a noun.
- Words that often appear together can be called a word pair.
- Knowing a word's most common word pairs can help us to use the word precisely and effectively.
- The vocabulary, grammar and punctuation taught in Year 3: National Curriculum Appendix 2
Vocabulary
Weather: wind and hot words
In this unit, pupils learn a wider range of vocabulary to support writing descriptively about the weather, including ambitious vocabulary for wind and hot words that can be applied to descriptive writing passages.
6 lessons in unit
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