Resources Needed for the Year 6 Narrative Revision Unit
Resources needed for the Year 6 Narrative Revision Unit
Phase 1 / Examples ProvidedDay 1
/ 2 test length narrative texts.2 pre-annotated ‘crib’ analysis sheets. / No More School
Time Trouble
Day 2 / 2 test length playscripts
2 pre-annotated ‘crib’ analysis sheets / Centaurus 1
Day 3 / 2 test length narrative texts
2 pre-annotated ‘crib’ analysis sheets
Breakdown of different types of questions
1, 2 and 3 mark questions
Criteria for ‘best’ answers
QCA guidance on answering questions / The One That Got Away
On the Plains
Day 4 / 2 test length playscripts
2 pre-annotated ‘crib’ analysis sheets
Breakdown of different types of questions
1, 2 and 3 mark questions
Criteria for ‘best’ answers
QCA guidance on answering questions
Day 5 / Previous test narrative text
‘Crib’ analysis sheet
Mark scheme for above text / You Can Do It 2004
Markscheme
Phase 2
Day 6 / A range of short narrative and play texts. Genre features checklistsPurpose and audience of each text / ‘Write Here, Write Now’ collections of children’s writing
Shorts by Kevin Crossley Holland
Day 7 / A brief for a piece of writing – QCA test
Success criteria/Marking Ladder for this type of writing
QCA Markscheme for above writing task / Look Who’s Talking 1996 (linked to the text Time Trouble)
Day 8 / A brief for a piece of playscript – QCA
Success criteria
QCA Markscheme for above writing task / Can I stay Up 2005
Scene from a play 2001
Day 9 / A brief for a writing task – QCA
Success criteria
QCA Markscheme for above writing task / A Change in Time 2002
Day 10 /
Small selection of narrative texts demonstrating good sentence use
‘Crib’ analysis focusing upon the sentence structure and useGrammar for Writing sentence units / ‘Write Here, Write Now’ collections of children’s writing
Shorts by Kevin Crossley Holland
Phase 3
Day 11 / A brief for a narrative writing task – QCASuccess criteria – focusing on sentence structure
QCA Markscheme for above writing task / The Moving Statue
Day 12 / A brief for a narrative writing task – QCA
Success criteria - focusing on sentence structure
QCA Markscheme for above writing task
Examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ responses to the task from the QCA Markscheme / A forgetful Character 2002
Day 13 / Selection of narrative texts to demonstrate paragraphing and cohesion
‘Crib’ analysis of above
Grammar for Writing paragraph units / ‘Write Here, Write Now’ collections of children’s writing
Shorts by Kevin Crossley Holland
Day 14 / A brief for a narrative writing task – QCA
Success criteria – focus on paragraphing and cohesion
QCA Markscheme for above writing task / The Dead of Night 1995
Day 15 / A brief for a narrative writing task – QCA
Success criteria – focus on paragraphs, sentences and text-level.
QCA Markscheme for above writing task / Trapped 2000
Other sources of narrative texts:
- Classworks Literacy
- Year 6 Exemplication units – CD in inside cover
- Existing Grammar and Comprehension Text books in school – e.g. Nelson Skills and Nelson Development
- Web: Children’s Stories available to download e.g 8-11 year olds. Read on line or print.