LKS2 English Unit of Work based around the story 'Leon and the Place Between' by Angela McAllister and Grahame Baker-Smith. English planning objectives link to the LKS2 National Curriculum for Reading, Speaking and Listening, Grammar and Writing. This unit comes downloadable with 14 lessons, worksheets and display posters. End of unit writing piece: Fantasy story - a magical place.
 
Planning and resources only are included with this download. The text can be purchased here: Leon and the Place Between
 
Unit Overview: 
In this unit the children will be ‘hooked’ in by a small magic show! They will then make simple predictions about the fantasy story ‘Leon and the Place Between’ by Angela McAllister, based on the front cover and the blurb. Through shared reading lessons, there will be a focus on the style and presentation of the text within the story. Children explore language and structure to create their own advert poster to entice an audience to a ‘Magic Show’.  When reading, children will discuss words and phrases that capture the readers’ imagination. They will act out scenes from the story and capture a freeze frame. Children will clarify new vocabulary within the text, specifically powerful verbs and use word webs to give them a deeper understanding of this vocabulary. Through continued reading, children will be taught to summarise the main points from paragraphs. Once the children are familiar with the story, they will unpick the text, looking at the plot and key vocabulary and punctuation used for impact. Children will then learn the grammar skills needed to support them with their own writing. They will explore direct speech and write a short with dialogue between other characters within the story. Children will also use expanded noun phrases with the modification of preposition phrases to describe the setting of the ‘Place Between’. Children will explore the use of adverbs within the text and use these to generate a list of new adverbs for their own writing. Children will then explore their own ideas for their own ‘fantasy story’. They will plan and write a story about one of the remaining characters in the story, entering a different magical land as they volunteer for a different magic trick.
Reading Objectives
 
Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied.
Identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning.
Discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and Imagination.
Checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and explaining the meaning of words in context.
Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these.
 
Speaking and Listening Objectives
 
Use spoken language to develop understanding through imagining and exploring ideas.
Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play.
 
Grammar Objectives
 
Introduction to inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.
Noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases.
Use of –ly in Standard English to turn adjectives into adverbs.
 
Writing Objectives
 
Discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.
Discussing and recording ideas.
Composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.
 
Documents Included:
Editable English Planning Document (Microsoft Word Document)
Making a prediction writing frame (PDF)
Adverbs Poster (PDF)
Adverbs Presentation (PDF)
Bank of Adverbs Worksheets (PDF)
Blurb CHallenge Activity (PDF)
Blurb (PDF)
Circus Poster Example (PDF)
Circus Writing Frame (PDF)
Fantasy Story Writing Plan (PDF)
Inverted Commas Presentation (PDF)
Leon and the Place Between Classroom Display Banner (PDF)
Magic Show Poster (PDF)
Prediction Worksheet (PDF)
Summarising the paragraph Worksheet (PDF)
Unpicking the text worksheet (PDF)
Verbs for speech display vocabulary (PDF)
Word Web (PDF)
 
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