Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 5 Summer Reports
Games
Research information about video games and board games. Examine the features of reports before writing your own. Learn how cohesive devices and parenthesis can be used to improve your report writing.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Reports about Video Games
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Websites
Children might enjoy playing Space Invaders from eloog.im or PacMan online from webretrogames.com.
Video of the game-play from Space Invaders and the game-play from Pac-Man from YouTube.com.
For researching use encyclopaedia information and simplified encyclopaedia information on Space Invaders from wikipedia.org.
Unit 2 SPaG: Devices to build cohesion between and within paragraphs
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Websites
Children may like to play Donkey Kong from free80sarcade.com.
Video of game play from Donkey Kong from YouTube.com.
Unit 3 Comprehension: Reports about Board-Games
(suggested as 4 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Websites
Explanation of how to play Cluedo from thesprucecrafts.com
Encyclopaedia entry about Cluedo from wikipedia.com
Explanation of how to play Monopoly from YouTube.com
News article about the popularity of board games from bbc.co.uk
Unit 4 SPaG: Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Websites
Video demonstrating how to play Valley of the Vikings
Video demonstrating how to play Galloping Pigs
Promotional video for the Ice Cool game
all from YouTube.com
Unit 5 Composition: Reports about Video Games, Board-Games or Consoles
(suggested as 4 days)
