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English Year 5/6 Spring Biographies

Rise Up

Enjoy and discuss a range of inspirational biographies from Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories. Learn the difference between active and passive voice and how to use the perfect form of verbs. Research, plan and write a biography.

The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.

Core
Unit 1 Core: Features of Biographies/autobiographies, summarising and taking notes (suggested as 5 days)

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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

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Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li

SPAG
Unit 2 SPaG: Using the passive voice (suggested as 3 days)

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Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li

SPAG
Unit 3 SPaG: Using the perfect form of verbs (suggested as 2 days)

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Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li

Composition
Unit 4 Composition: Writing a biography (suggested as 5 days)

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SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

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Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li

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