Medium Term Literacy Planning Spring Term 2016-17 Year 6

Genre / Grammar / Spelling
Newspaper Report
Macbeth – The Battle of Dunsinane /
  • Direct speech / reported speech – correct use of punctuation
  • Passive and active voice
  • Relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or an omitted relative pronoun
  • Revision –Clauses A sentence may consist of a single clause or it may contain several clauses held together by subordination or co-ordination
  • Revision - Past tenses verb forms – past/present perfect and past progressive
/ Read Write Inc – Changing the word class of words by adding suffixes
Read Write Inc – spelling the phoneme ‘sh’ using the graphemes ‘ti’ and ‘ci’
Read Write Inc – spelling the phoneme ‘sh’ using the graphemes ‘si’ and ‘ssi’
Unusual Homophones
Descriptive Writing
The Tin Forest /
  • Adverbials (including fronted adverbials)
  • Linking ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: repetition of a word or phrase, grammatical connections (e.g. the use of adverbials such as on the other hand, in contrast, or as a consequence),
  • Apostrophe – contractions / possession
  • Revision – expanded noun phrases- phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases

Narrative
Writing a ‘Finding Story’ in the style of Pie Corbett’s Sam’s Thief /
  • Linking ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: repetition of a word or phrase, grammatical connections (e.g. the use of adverbials such as on the other hand, in contrast, or as a consequence),
  • Hyphens – to avoid ambiguity (included Read Write inc special focus)
  • Semi-colon, colon & dash – to indicatea stronger subdivision of a sentence than a comma

Non-chronological Report
Deforestation (linked to Geography topic) /
  • Revision of key grammatical features

Balanced Argument
Deforestation (linked to Geography topic) /
  • Linking ideas across paragraphs
  • using a wider range of cohesive
  • devices
  • Formal language techniques
  • Formal subordinating conjunctions
  • Revision of key grammatical features
/ Read Write Inc – Silent letters
Read Write Inc – words that include the spellings ‘ie’ and ‘ei’
Read Write Inc – words ending in ‘ible’ and ‘able’
Persuasive Letter
Saving the habitat of the Orang-u-tan (linked to Geography topic) /
  • Develop use of rhetorical
  • questions for persuasion
  • Revision of key grammatical features

Explanation
How to look after a Miptor