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Contents
Language focus
Cross-curricular links
21st century skills
Talk about differences between scanning and reading carefully Discuss when to use formal and informal letters Listen to a conversation between Aunty Sonia and Arturo Talk about receiving mail Tell the story of Mrs Sabella's trip
Prepositions Synonyms Parts of a letter Homophones Punctuation
Maths: 24-hour clock; calculating time intervals; Days, weeks, months, years History: Family trees Geography: Famous landmarks; researching rivers; transport of mail
Collaborate with a partner to write synonyms for happy and sad Communicate experiences of receiving mail
Discuss the layout of play scripts Act out a play script in a group Listen carefully to a play script Read through a play script as a group
Parts of play scripts Hard c and soft c
Science: Animal features and functions; forces at work; Maths: Pictograms and bar charts Geography: Facts about countries
Reflect on how the information in a play script can help to perform in character Work creatively to write a play script for a known traditional tale
Listen to a play script Act out a play script in a group Listen to two versions of the same story Role play being a firesnatcher Use a story plan to tell a story to a partner
Figurative language; similes Sentence openings Irregular past tense verbs Punctuating speech Starting new paragraphs Prefixes
Science: Properties of liquids; floating and sinking: how humans and other animals change and develop Geography: Rainforests Citizenship: Dragons in different cultures
Use critical thinking to predict what happes next in a story Work creatively to write a character portrait
Talk about language used in a text Practise reading to a partner. Listen to a talk about Norway Give a talk to a class
Features of non-fiction texts Multi-clause sentences and connectives Conditional sentences Facts and opinions
Maths: Counting on and back in 1s, 10s and 100s; simple word problems; comparing 3D objects Geography: Locating countries on maps
Use critical thinking to locate information in contents and index pages Reflect on the difference in language used in own fiction and non-fiction writing
Talk about what makes things funny Listen to a funny poem Talk about calligrams Perform own poem
Puns Limericks Calligrams Mnemonics
Science: Creating calligrams for science vocabulary; science poems Maths: Measuring time Geography: Weather and climate Art: Nonsense pictures
Work collaboratively with a partner to list things that make a poem funny Work creatively to write and perform a poem
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Speaking/Listening
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