Non-fiction

English Year 5/6 Autumn Recounts

Races in Frozen Places

Explore the frozen wilds! Examine text organisation in Shackleton's Journey, write evaluatively using model verbs and punctuate lists. Summarise events depicted in The Great Serum Race and write a newspaper recount.

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

Core
Unit 1 Core: Introduction to recounts: Shackleton’s Journey
(suggested as 5 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

SPAG
Unit 2 SPAG: Adverbs of Possibility & Modal Verbs
(suggested as 3 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

PowerPoint: Language of Possibility

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SPAG
Unit 3 SPAG: Bullets, colons and semi-colons: Challenges of Polar Exploration
(suggested as 2 days)

Composition
Unit 4 Composition: Newspaper recounts: The Great Serum Race
(suggested as 5 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.