Why not try our Short Blocks instead of our Weekly Plans?
Our short blocks have all the benefits of the weekly plans. They also provide a wealth of support and a whole raft of resources which were simply not possible when we produced the weekly plans nearly six years ago.
Find out more about the advantages of short blocks.
Hamilton's Y6 English plans cover all of the statutory objectives of the National Curriculum for England for Upper Key Stage 2. The Coverage Charts enables you to see sets A and B from Hamilton's original Key Stage 2 plans in their entirety.These plans are the Set B plans from the Mixed Age plans for Y5/6. Using these plans guarantees no overlap with Y5. The Mixed Age plans also provide additional choice of focus and texts for Upper Key Stage Two.
Use Just William texts, audio and TV programmes to discuss the story structure, characters and settings used and how dialogue advances the action. Study the use of informal and old-fashioned language, perfect and subjunctive verb forms. Write play script and stories.
Children will study classic narrative fiction. Using The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byers, they will look at the differences between literal and inferred information. They will examine how the author modifies their language to change the emphasis in writing, using adverbials and modal verbs. The children will then use these features of language to plan and write detailed stories of their own.
Use When Jessie Came Across the Sea and Mr. George Baker to discuss the features of chronological report writing, revise punctuation and study past tenses including the perfect form and active/passive voices. Children write an article, a sister story and a biography.
Children explore information texts using the Stone Age as inspiration, including: The First Drawing; The Secrets of Stonehenge; and Stone Age Boy. They consider formal and informal language; explore modal verbs; revise a wide range of punctuation; write information texts in different styles; travel in time and share everything they have learnt in a show-stopping exhibition.
Reading a selection of Emily Dickinson's poems, children explore figurative language and poetic devices. Children read and write poetry, investigate personification through drama and drawing, make careful observations of nature and research the life and works of Dickinson. Grammar and punctuation include: expanded noun phrases; relative clauses; grammatical terms; and commas and semicolons. The unit culminates in a debate about fame and publication.
Read a dialogue poem from Bahrain – The Rat and the Ship’s Captain, and investigate idioms and pronouns. Compare with the poem The Lion and Albert and study the perfect form of verbs. Finally look at modern conversation poems by Michael Rosen and write a similar one.
