Planning and Activities
Non-fiction
English Year 5 Autumn Reports and Recounts
Migration
Three amazing texts stimulate children’s reading, writing and discussion of first animal, then human, migration. Writing cohesively and using parentheses form the SPaG element, but children’s own creative work will make this block truly exciting.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Comprehension and Composition: Reading and Writing about Animal Migration
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Migration by Mike Unwin and Jenni Desmond
Optional Text
Migrations – Open Hearts, Open Borders by Various Authors
Websites
Footage of caribou migration; Information on Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds;
Global animal movements all from YouTube.com
Unit 2 SPaG: Devices to build cohesion between and within paragraphs
(suggested as 3 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential text
Migration by Mike Unwin and Jenni Desmond
Websites
Arctic Tern migration; Christmas Island Red Crab both from YouTube.com
Unit 3 SPaG: Use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis
(suggested as 2 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
Migration by Mike Unwin and Jenni Desmond
Optional Websites
Mali Elephants and what is being done to protect them
Monarch butterflies and how people are trying to help them both from YouTube.com
Unit 4 Comprehension: Coming to England by Floella Benjamin
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Coming to England by Floella Benjamin, Macmillan Children’s Books (2017)
Optional Text
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Websites
What is the Windrush Generation?; Interview with Floella Benjamin; BBC Teach clip explaining Migration all from bbc.co.uk
Prehistoric migration from YouTube.com
Movement of refugees since 2000 from fastcompany.com
Unit 5 Composition: Writing an exhibition guide
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Teaching
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential text
Migrations – Open Hearts, Open Borders, by Various Authors
Websites
MOAS Migrant rescue operations from vimeo.com (please watch first before sharing with your class)
Open Heart, Open Borders project