Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 3 Summer Stories on a Theme
Sea Stories
Read Michael Morpurgo’s sea stories Dolphin Boy and The Sandman and the Turtles to explore his use of characterisation, dilemmas, dialogue, word classes and the perfect tense.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core Unit: Focus: Read and understand a story and write a review
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Dolphin Boy by Michael Morpurgo
Websites
Swimming with the dolphins of Donegal from www.bbc.co.uk
Dolphins from www.natgeokids.com
Book review of Dolphin Boy from www.amazon.co.uk
Unit 2 SPAG: Identify grammatical word classes
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Sandman and the Turtles by Michael Morpurgo
Presentation
Grammar PowerPoint: Grammatical Word Classes, including adverbials
Unit 3 Comprehension: Reading a book and writing about it
(suggested as 4 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Sandman and the Turtles by Michael Morpurgo
Unit 4 SPAG: Writing dialogue, including reporting clauses and alternatives to ‘said’
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Sandman and the Turtles by Michael Morpurgo
Presentation
Grammar PowerPoint: Writing dialogue
Unit 5 Composition: Compare stories; write a story based on one read using paragraphs
(suggested as 4 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Dolphin Boy by Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman
The Sandman and the Turtles by Michael Morpurgo