ENGLISH Summary of activities Notes

Year Six As part of our induction programme to Year Six we No school on Monday.
Set Two will begin by looking at writing an autobiography. INSET Day on Tuesday.
JW will teach Friday’s lesson.
Biographi
es &
Autobiogr
aphies

Date: Learni Target

ed
Whole Class Word/ Independent Work Plenar Resourc
ng Introduction (Text) Sentence Level y es
1-9- Intent
pupils/
Speaking & Listening
Areas Easy Medium Hard
2008 ions & to
Succe develo
p
ss
Criteri
a
Monday • • • • • •
Learning Intention:
We Are Learning To
Success Criteria:
I can
Wednesday • • • • • •
Learning Intention:
We Are Learning To
Success Criteria:
I can
Wednesday
Learning Intention:
• Introduce the class to
format of the lessons for • Discuss the
• Start with
the prefix
• Provide
children with
• Investigate
the use of
Hard
group
• Collecti
on of
We Are Learning To use the year. terms ‘auto’ in the sheet of A4, prefixes report biograp
prefixes to build words • Mrs Webster will teach ‘biography’ and middle of a fold in half, ‘auto’ & back with hies
Success Criteria: lessons on a Friday. These ‘autobiography’. spider on one side ‘bio’ – some • Diction
I can find words using the lessons will normally take a Underline graph. write “bio” finding out new aries
prefixes auto and bio speaking and listening prefixes, auto • Support on the other how the words • Spellin
focus, but will occasionally and bio. children “auto.” prefix using the g Bank
take a writing focus. • Discuss effect on with • Create two changes auto- and
• MLK
• Discuss homework and meaning (Greek dictionaries spider the bio-
biograp
explain that the first piece autos = self, bios help them graphs using meaning prefix.
hy
will be given out on Friday. = life). to find the known words of root Can
• What other correct & those word. children
•
guess
words do we
know with those
page
efficiently.
found in
dictionaries. • Which are the
beginnings? Find other familiar/un meaning
familiar? s?.
• Brainstorm other
words &
meanings. • How does
words on f/c on 2 prefix help
spider graphs us
(Spelling Bank understan
p68), eg d new
autograph, words?
automobile,
automatic,
biology,
biosphere. Find
 unknowns in
dictionary,
modeling how…
Thursday
Learning Intention:
• Read some examples of
autobiographies and
• Compare the use
of pronouns in • On a pre-
• The children will prepare a
timeline of their life
What
sort of
• Exampl
printed events es of
We Are Learning To biographies. autobiographies
timeline would be biogs
identify events that are • Look at the differences compared with
with suitable and
suitable for an between the two. Make a biographies.
selected for an autobio
autobiography list.
• Autobiographies events autobiogr gs
Success Criteria:
I can compile a timeline
• Read more closely an are written in the marked on aphy? • Pre-
of the events in my life extract from an first person. This them, the printed
that are suitable for an autobiography. Why did the makes it children will timelin
autobiography author choose to write this personal and complete a es
story? The author produced subjective – full timeline of
a timeline and then chose of opinions. their life
special events to write Discuss how this
about. relates to p of v.
• Model how to add events to
a timeline.
Friday • What is a CV? Who would • • The children will work in pairs – A and B. The • Exampl
Learning Intention: write one? Who would use • A will interview B for the first half of the lesson. children e of a
We Are Learning To one? Their aim is to collect sufficient information to put will be CV
collect information for a • Look at an example of a CV. together a CV for that person. given • Scrap
CV Why are these headings • The roles will then reverse. their paper
Success Criteria: used? homewor
k for the
I can carry out an
interview to collect
• How much information is weekend.
information for a CV recorded on a CV?
• We are going to put
together a CV of somebody
else in the class. How will
we find out the information
we require?
• Decide on a job that we
should apply for
• Agree on the headings we
require for the CV

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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