Letters: Dear Greenpeace

Non-fiction

Read and write letters inspired by Simon James’s Dear Greenpeace and Hamilton's Group Reader, Boris and Sid Meet a Shark. Explore sentence punctuation and extension.

Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.

Unit 1 Core: Read, discuss and apply letter-writing conventions (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Texts
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James

Unit 2 SPAG: Sentence building and punctuation (suggested as 3 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

PowerPoint

You Will Need

Texts
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James

Presentations
Grammar PowerPoint for Unit 2: Punctuation

Unit 3 Comprehension: Reading and writing animal encounter letters (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Texts
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James

Group Readers
Boris and Sid meet a Shark

Group Readers

Boris and Sid meet a shark
An account of a short holiday in which these two child-like characters meet a variety of weird and wonderful sea creatures. This very simple and pleasing text can be used alongside many non-fiction texts.

You can purchase printed copies of this Group Reader from Hamilton Education.

Group Reader

Unit 4 SPAG: Sentence building: extending ideas using because (suggested as 3 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Texts
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James

Unit 5 Composition: Write letters in the style of Dear Greenpeace (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Texts
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James

Websites
World Wildlife Fund from worldwildlife.org
Binding single pages together from www.wikihow.com

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