Washingborough Academy Literacy LTP Y4/5/6
Literacy
Term 1 The fallen
Term 2 The fallen
Poetry based on WW1
Autobiography/ Biography Diary entries of famous figures
Short stories with flashbacks- Valentine Joe Private peaceful
Grammar focus
Listening to clips of Private Peaceful Passive verbs to effect the presentation of information in a sentence (linked with Poetry) Using the perfect form of verbs to make relationships of time and cause
Play- Journey’s end (based within the trenches) Children to write their own versions Using relative clauses- who, which, when , where, whose and pronouns
Semi colons, colons, dashes to mark boundaries between clauses
Synonyms and antonyms Brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis Word classes Adverbials Past and present tense
Spelling focus
Exclamation marks, question marks and ellipses Cious/ tious Endings which sound like ‘l’- cial, tial Words ending in – ant, ance, ancy, ent, ence, ency Based on children’s misconceptions
Cohesive devices- subordinating connectives, conjunctions, connectives and establishing links between paragraphs. Words ending in able or ible, -ably or –ibly Words ending in –fer Use of a hyphen I before e, except after c Based on children’s misconceptions
Literacy
Term 3 Mission to Mars
Term 4 Mission to Mars
Non- Chronological reports- planets, moonlanding
Instructions- Baboon on the moon for sequencing events, cooking instructions for Martians
Narrative- Zathura text Grammar focus
Subordinate, embedded and main clauses
Persuasion- Do other life forms exist on other planets? Word classes
Nouns and different types of nouns
Active and passive voice
Prepositions
Cohesion between paragraphs
Modal verbs and Infinites
Homonyms
Speech marks
Etymology
Apostrophes
Fronting e.g. A word or phrase that normally comes after the verb which has been moved to before the verb.
Paragraphing
Spelling focus
-Ough Silent letters Homophones Suffix ing, ed Plurals Based on children’s misconceptions
Soft vowel sounds and long vowel sounds Apostrophe with plural words Words ending with the ‘g’ sound e.g.- que, gue Based on children’s misconceptions
Literacy
Grammar focus
Term 5 On the high seas
Term 6 On the high seas
Journalistic writing- The titanic- creating our own news reports
Classical literature- Treasure Island
Formal/ Impersonal writing- East coast floods- Black Saturday
Discussion
Lost and found- the lost penguin.
Rainbow fish
Use of I and me
Paragraphs
Formality
Brackets, dashes and bullet points
Modifiers
Cohesive devices- subordinating connectives, conjunctions, connectives and establishing links between paragraphs.
Tense Pronouns Double negatives Fronting Apostrophes
Spelling focus
A sounds- ei, e, eigh, ey -ture and sure -sion, tion and cian Adverbs and adding ly Based on children’s misconceptions
Prefixes- un, mis, in and re Homophones Superlatives Plurals Based on children’s misconceptions