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Year 6 Literacy Lesson Plans

Autum Term

Word Level Work

• Gather a collection of proper nouns and investigate their origins using dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
  
• Look at more complex suffixes, prefixes and roots. Find poly-syllabic words and break them down to better understand meaning and origin.
  
  

Sentence Level Work

• Write a set of instructions, a non-chronological report or similar on the board and ask children to investigate ways in which it could be punctuated. Look at use of colons, semi-colons, brackets and dashes.
  
  

Spring Term

Word Level Work

• Build a bank of connectives.
  
• Build a bank of alternatives to 'said'. Give a sentence to improve i.e. "Get out of my way," said Kojic
  
  

Sentence Level Work

• Contracting sentences: note making, editing and summary - find out what current humanities topic is, read a passage from a relevant source, ask them to take notes while you read it, then to summarize the passage (could be in bullet point or paragraph form.)
  
  

Summer Term

Word Level Work

• Invent mnemonics for irregular and difficult spellings.
  
  

Sentence Level Work

• Study proverbs and write their meanings.
  
  

Text Level Work

Narrative / Plays / Scripts

• Write a story with two different narrators. More able alone, one paragraph (sub-titled?) for each, able and less able in pairs, think of a story with two characters (parent/teacher and child perhaps? Bully/Victim) and each take a part to write same story, compile as intertwined paragraphs at end.
  
• Give the children 1 story title, and ask them to plan five stories using it, using the same characters. Example titles: Lost!; We're On Our Way!; Shipwrecked!; Track Fever; Mysterious Mummies.
  
• Read the opening to a story, and ask children to prepare as a script using stage directions etc.
  
• Write the blurb for the back cover of a novel they'd like to write/their auto-biography.
  
• Write a flashback story, secret door, key, black hole etc.
  
• Write an alternative ending to a well-know story (i.e. myth, fairy tale.)
  
• Produce a writer's commentary on the opening/first chapter of their current reading book
  
  

Non Fiction

• Give each table a different audience but the same non-fiction title, e.g. Life in the Blitz, compare the style the different texts are written in, language, format etc.
  
• Discuss current point of debate (i.e. local toxic waste plant (use local/current affairs knowledge) or imaginary school scenario (Head teacher decides to ban/bring in uniforms for teachers) and write a balanced report.
  
• Prepare a CV for their hero, research where available, for job as Prime Minister.
  
• Write a report in a journalistic style based on a local/current issue such as dogs fouling the park. Present a balanced and ethical report that includes interviews from different perspectives.
  
• Give invitation to Hermione to Wizard's Ball, ask to prepare same for a professor of wizardry, concentrating on differences between formal and informal text used.
  
  

Poetry

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