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English Online. Every child literate - a shared responsibility.

Dick King-Smith

TEACHER Suzette Mayes and Alan Frame

 

YEAR

LEVEL

DURATION

3-4 2 4-5 weeks

 

Achievement Objective Being Assessed

Learning Outcomes

Poetic Writing Write on a variety of topics, to shape ideas in a number of genre eg. menu, character self portrait and letters, and making choices in language.

Processes

Thinking Critically Identify and express meanings in written texts draw on personal background, knowledge and experience.

Supporting Achievement Objective

Learning Outcomes

Close Reading Discuss language, meanings and ideas in texts relating their understanding to personal experiences.

 

Teacher Background Reading

TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

Learning task 1: Introduction
Learning task 2
Learning task 3: Reading texts
Learning task 4: Further activities

ASSESSMENT

Literary Letters. Children choose story character and write a letter to that character. They swap their letter with a friend who has to write a reply as the character.

Exemplars

LetterFromRex ( 22KB)

LetterFromBabe ( 22KB)

self_assessment (RTF 227KB)
assessment-1 (RTF 7KB)

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