Non-fiction: explorers
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' expertise in non-fiction reading and writing from 'teenage kicks'. Having already compared texts, they now start to complete increasingly precise and developed comparisons of viewpoints. They also coninue to refine their non-fiction writing by using all that they have learnt in the previous non-fiction writing units to write compelling accounts that engage, inform and entertain readers.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode a range of challenging texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts, with accuracy
- Pupils can comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
- Pupils use comparisons to compare subtle similarities or differences, between texts
- Pupils understand the conventions of different types of functional writing
- Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can use rhetorical devices for effect in their own writing
- Pupils have know how to develop a tone of voice when writing
- Pupils can use tentative language to effectively discuss alternative interpretations
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' expertise in non-fiction reading and writing from 'teenage kicks'. Having already compared texts, they now start to complete increasingly precise and developed comparisons of viewpoints. They also coninue to refine their non-fiction writing by using all that they have learnt in the previous non-fiction writing units to write compelling accounts that engage, inform and entertain readers.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils can use reading skills to decode a range of challenging texts
- Pupils can identify a range of language devices in texts, with accuracy
- Pupils can comment on an author's use of language
- Pupils can use conjunctions to explain their inferences
- Pupils use comparisons to compare subtle similarities or differences, between texts
- Pupils understand the conventions of different types of functional writing
- Pupils can use simple, compound and complex sentences
- Pupils can use rhetorical devices for effect in their own writing
- Pupils have know how to develop a tone of voice when writing
- Pupils can use tentative language to effectively discuss alternative interpretations
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Non-fiction: explorers
In this unit, pupils develop their non-fiction reading and writing skills by looking at non-fiction texts about explorers. They first conceptualise travel writing, before building towards making concise and developed comparisons between texts. They finally create a compelling account about a place.
8 lessons in unit
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