JL

Possible Written Outcomes or Incidental Writing Opportunities
  • Recount of the Iron Man’s journey
  • Thought bubbles from the Iron Manat various points
  • A letter from Hogarth describing what he has witnessed
  • A wanted poster for the Iron Man
  • Prequel to story – Iron Man before planet Earth
  • Instructions for assembling an Iron Man
  • A poem about Iron Man’s characteristics
  • Re-write a chapter of the story – where would you take Iron Man
  • A conversation detailing Hogarth’s experiences to persuade people it was true
  • Write a script for a newsreader – Iron Man spotted in the forest
/ Year 4
/ 1. Responding to the Text
  • Visual literacy: use small picture on title page. Predict what the book might be about.
  • Book talk: Where could the Iron Man have come from?
  • Book talk: What does Iron Man want? What type of character is he?
  • Book talk: what themes are in the book?
  • Book talk: what message is the writer trying to give the reader?
  • Visual Literacy: how does the illustrator help the reader to understand the themes? How does the black and white contribute to meaning?
  • Book talk: how do you feel at the end of the book? Can you explain your feelings?
  • Book talk: How would Hogarth feel at the end of the story?
  • Book talk: Use an emotion graph to plot Hogarth’s feelings at various points of the story.

Hook
  • 3D model making of an Iron Man

2. Capturing Ideas
  • Think of questions to ask Iron Man- life before the washing up on the shore, hopes and dreams?
  • Hot seat Hogarth and ask him about his feelings towards the Iron Man
  • Host a village meeting with ideas as to what to do about the Iron Man
  • Character descriptions with expanded noun phrases
/ Sentence Games (use throughout unit)
  • Prepositions game
  • Improve a sentence- focus on the grammatical elements that need consolidation or review
  • Poetic sentences – Study Ted Hughes Poet Laureate
  • Chain writing
/ 3. Contextualised Grammar Teaching
Instructions
  • Precise nouns for clarity
  • Expanded noun phrases to detail characteristics
  • Apostrophes to mark possession
  • Prepositions to clarify location
  • Adverbs for how
Narrative
  • Sentences with more than two clauses
  • Fronted adverbs for position
  • Different types of determiners
  • Range of modal verbs to show ability
  • Adverbs for cause

4. Modelled Writing
Shared Writing
Guided Writing
Independent Writing

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