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English Year 6 Spring Complete Revision for SATs
Percy Jackson and Greek Myths
Plunge into your Spring Revision Term with our Greek Myth-Themed Y6 Revision Block.
Revise all necessary grammar, punctuation and spelling for the Y6 SPaG tests, as well as reading, comprehension and writing activities within an inspirational term's work that follows the sequence of selected Greek Myths & Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.
This block covers the whole of Spring Term. You can teach it all or pick and mix: the units are devised for maximum flexibility to suit your children’s needs and revision timeframe.
This Y6 English revision block is designed to provide a truly inspirational term's work. It is divided into nine units that guarantee an exciting and stimulating literary experience, as well as covering all necessary revision, including the grammar, punctuation and spelling for the SPAG tests as well as reading, comprehension and writing.
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Unit 1 Introduce Greek Mythology and explore story openings
(suggested as 7 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
1) Presentation: Sentence Punctuation
Revise what makes a complete sentence and how these are punctuated. Explore the syntax of a sentence (subject, verb, object) and how these work together to make meaning.
2) Presentation: Formal and Informal Language
Revise what is meant by formal and informal register and how it can be created through vocabulary choices, contractions, question tags, ellipsis and breaking grammar rules!
3) Presentation: Word Classes
Revise word classes (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, determiner, pronoun, conjunction), how they function in a sentence and practise identifying words by class.
Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 1
Deliver quick, focused revision (sentence punctuation, formal and informal register, word classes), which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Optional Texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Any children’s reference books on Greek mythology
Website
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/ Online free dictionary
Unit 2 Descriptive and Predictive Writing
(suggested as 7 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Presentation: Modal Verbs
Revise modal verbs, identify them in a sentence and explore how they modify meaning. Use modal verbs to write predictions and sentences about degrees of obligation.
2) Presentation: Expanded Noun Phrases
Revise how to construct, identify and use expanded noun phrases to convey detailed information concisely. ‘Test’ them by replacing with a pronoun.
3) Presentation: Relative Clauses
Revise how relative clauses can give extra information about a noun, a pronoun or a clause. Identify relative clauses in given sentences, explore punctuation of embedded clauses and try adding your own to expand sentences.
4) Presentation: Subjunctive form for hypotheticals and wishes
Revise how this very formal verb form can be used to express hypotheticals and wishes. Identify when sentences use the subjunctive form, rewrite given sentences to make them more formal and write hypothetically using sentence starters.
Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 2
Deliver quick, focused revision (modal verbs, expanded noun phrases, relative clauses, subjunctive form), which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Optional Texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Websites
Day 7 resources if further research needed: https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/...greek-gods
http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/gods...
Unit 3 Instructions, Rules and Guides
(suggested as 6 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
1) Presentation: Apostrophes for Contraction and Possession
Revise how apostrophes are used to indicated contracted forms. Explore the difference in using the possessive apostrophe for singular and plural nouns.
2) Presentation: Subjunctive form for Requests and Demands
Revise how this very formal verb form can be used to make requests and commands. Identify when sentences use the subjunctive form, rewrite given sentences to make them more formal and write rules for mythical visitors.
3) Presentation: Sentence Forms
Revise the four sentence forms (statement, question, command, exclamation), their different functions and how to identify and punctuate them. Practise rewriting a sentence to change its form.
Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 3
Deliver quick, focused revision (apostrophes for contraction and possession, sentence forms, subjunctive form), which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Optional Texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Unit 4 Reports and Explanation Texts
(suggested as 6 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
1) Grammar Presentation: Parenthesis
Explore what parenthetical information is and how we can identify in a sentence or add it. Discuss the different uses of commas, brackets and dashes for punctuating parenthesis and the impact on clarity and register.
2) Grammar Presentation: Phrases and Clauses
Consolidate children’s understanding of phrases and clauses in this short pre-teaching PowerPoint, in order to prepare them for adverbials revision. Discuss what makes a phrase and a clause, linking to adverbials, noun phrases and subordination.
3) Grammar Presentation: Adverbials
Revise how adverbials can give extra information explaining when, where and how. Explore how to punctuate adverbials when they are fronted.
Grammar Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 4
Deliver quick, focused revision (parenthesis, adverbials, word classes), which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Optional Texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Unit 5 SPAG: Dialogue, Quotes and News Media
(suggested as 6 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar Presentation: Bullet Points
Explore the conventions associated with using bullet points and how to use them in lists when the items are full sentences or words and phrases. Spot and troubleshoot errors.
2) Grammar Presentation: Punctuating Dialogue
Consolidate children’s understanding of how to punctuate dialogue as direct speech. Introduce reported speech and how this can summarise and report informal discourse in a concise and informal manner.
3) Grammar Presentation: Commas, Colons and Semi-colons
Give an overview on how these punctuation marks are used and why. Explore how commas separate and clarify. Understand how colons and semi-colons mark relationships between clauses in a way which is similar to conjunctions.
Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 5
Deliver quick, focused revision (bullet points; punctuating dialogue; commas, colons and semi-colons), which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Tests
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Optional Texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Unit 6 SPAG: Recounts and Chronological Writing
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Presentation: Verbs and Tense
Revise how verbs indicate tense, exploring examples of simple, progressive and perfect forms both in present and past tenses. Discuss the shades of meaning created through selecting different forms.
Presentation: Cohesion between Paragraphs
Define cohesion before revising the function of paragraphs. Explore how adverbials can create links between paragraphs, giving information about time, place and number, and how topic sentences can be used to orientate the reader further.
Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 6
Deliver quick, focused revision (verbs and tense, cohesion through adverbials, word classes) which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Optional Texts
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Websites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Dramatised BBC School Radio retellings of Greek myths, including several episodes from Odysseus’s story (The Odyssey – An Ancient Greek epic poem)
Unit 7 SPaG: Persuasion and Balanced Argument
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar Presentation: Adverbs of Possibility
Revise how adverbs of possibility can modify verbs and clauses, how they are punctuated and the impact they have. Explore how they can be used for prediction and persuasion.
Grammar Presentation: Active and Passive Voice
Revise subject, verb and object and explore how these can be manipulated to create active and passive voice. Identify the voice of sentences and explore the impact when the agent (doer) is removed from a passive sentence.
Grammar Presentation: Subordinate Clauses
Revise how subordinate clauses can add different types of information to main clauses, explaining, elaborating or adding a shade of meaning. Recap punctuation.
Grammar Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 7
Deliver quick, focused revision (adverbs of possibility, active and passive voice, subordinate clauses) which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Texts
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Optional texts
Greek Myths by Marcia Williams
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths and Monsters by Emma Wright
Websites
Dramatised BBC School Radio retellings of Greek myths, including ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ from bbc.co.uk
Conscience Alley explanation (for Day 6) from dramaresource.com
Unit 8 SPaG: Narrative and Storytelling
(suggested as 6 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Grammar Presentation: Cohesion within Paragraphs
Revise cohesion and how it can be used to create flowing narrative prose. Explore how adverbs, conjunctions, determiners and pronouns aid cohesion: identify them in use and insert into given text.
Grammar Presentation: Time, Place and Cause
Revise separately how adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions can be used to express time, cause, place and manner. Explore how they are inserted into sentences and punctuated.
Grammar Presentation: 5-Minute Revision, Unit 8
Deliver quick, focused revision (cohesion within paragraphs; expressing time, place and cause) which requires children only to have whiteboards. Questions are intentionally similar in content and style to the formal KS2 tests.
You Will Need
Text
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Optional texts
The Lightning Thief: Audiobook – (Unabridged) Narrated by Jesse Bernstein
Websites
A fun 2.5-minute video explaining the concept of a story mountain from bbc.co.uk
Unit 9 SPaG: Testing and Celebration
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
These mock Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling papers give your class the chance to practise for the SAT while remaining in the world of Percy Jackson.
You Will Need
Optional Texts: (required extracts in resources)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Greek Myths by Ann Turnbull
Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths & Monsters Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright
Websites
Explanation of the traditional game Grandma’s Footsteps on which Medusa’s Footsteps is based from dramaresource.com