Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' understanding of non-fiction texts and speech writing from the 'Victorian childhood' unit. In this unit, they read a greater range of non-fiction texts and start to look at more sophisticated techniques to help them deliver complex ideas. They also explore how language and structure can help them to communicate their ideas. Similarly, they start looking at how re-drafting can improve their writing. This unit prepares pupils for 'non-fiction: crime and punishment', where they will start comparing non-fiction texts across time.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can decode short pieces of challenging text, which contain archaic language and offer their meaning
- Pupils can use connectives for comparison
- Pupils can draw evidence from two separate texts, to draw together relevant points of comparison and contrast
- Pupils know the conventions of newspaper articles and speeches
- Pupils are able to use appropriate conventions of persuasive writing
- Pupils understand the idea of the text as a construct and can express the writer's viewpoint
Threads
Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' understanding of non-fiction texts and speech writing from the 'Victorian childhood' unit. In this unit, they read a greater range of non-fiction texts and start to look at more sophisticated techniques to help them deliver complex ideas. They also explore how language and structure can help them to communicate their ideas. Similarly, they start looking at how re-drafting can improve their writing. This unit prepares pupils for 'non-fiction: crime and punishment', where they will start comparing non-fiction texts across time.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can decode short pieces of challenging text, which contain archaic language and offer their meaning
- Pupils can use connectives for comparison
- Pupils can draw evidence from two separate texts, to draw together relevant points of comparison and contrast
- Pupils know the conventions of newspaper articles and speeches
- Pupils are able to use appropriate conventions of persuasive writing
- Pupils understand the idea of the text as a construct and can express the writer's viewpoint
Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing
In this unit, pupils read a wide range of non-fiction texts from across history that are centered around the topic of women's rights. They first read a range of texts and identify key themes and techniques within them, before then planning, writing, re-drafting and delivering their own speech.
25 lessons in unit
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