English Year 5/6 Autumn Adventure Stories
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Explore this exciting adventure story, examining characterisation and descriptive language. Learn how to integrate dialogue and to use expanded noun phrases. Improvise, draft, write and perform a playscript based on the book.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Introduction to the novel: characters, setting, dilemmas
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook
Unit 2 SPaG: Writing integrated dialogue
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
PowerPoint: Dialogue
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook
Unit 3 SPaG: Noun Phrases to convey complicated information concisely
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
PowerPoint: Noun Phrases
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook