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KS1&2 Literacy (National Strategy)- Year Six - Term One

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	Create your own story and accompanying cartoon strip.		Add this to your personal activity list Create, save and load your own versions
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS: Y3, T3, T13: to write more extended stories based on a plan of incidents ... Y4, T2, T10: to develop use of settings in own writing, making use of work on adjectives and figurative language to describe settings effectively Y4, T3, T11: to explore the main issues of a story by writing s story about a dilemma and the issues it raises for the character Y5, T2, T11: to write own versions of legends, myths and fables, using structures and themes identified in reading Y6, T1, T7: to plan quickly and effectively the plot, characters and structure of their own narrative writing Y6, T1, T9: to prepare a short section of story as a script e.g using stage directions, location/setting. Wrting KS2 12: The range of forms of writing should include narratives, playscripts....
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	This is the last of five levels. In this activity, order sentences in three different ways and explore how the meaning changes.		Add this to your personal activity list Create, save and load your own versions
	Learning objectives/outcomes: NLS Y6, T1, S1: To form complex sentences through exploring how meaning is affected by the sequence and structure of clauses. NC: KS2: Writing: Language structure a: word classes and the grammatical functions of words, including nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. Language structure c: The grammar of complex sentences, including clauses, phrases and connectives
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