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Non-chronological Report: Derbyshire

Biography- Philippe Petit

Defeating the Monster Tale

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Discussion

In this unit we will be learning how to write a discussion text.

Should Daleks be allowed to live on Earth?

Warning Tale- The Canal

For our next fiction text, a 'Warning Tale', we will be looking at 'The Canal' by Pie Corbett. 

 

Recount- 'One Giant Leap for Mankind'

Our Recount Text is a newspaper article about the first moon landing. We will be focusing on the correct use of commas and varying our sentence types.

Quest Story- Alien Landing

Our new 'Talk for Writing' text will be 'Alien Landing' by Pie Corbett. We will be focusing on writing descriptions. Our grammar focus will be relative clauses.

Non-chronological Report- Pirates!

In this unit we will be learning how to write a non-chronological report. Our grammar focus will be simple, compound and complex sentences.
In this unit we will be looking at writing a 'Lost and Found' story. We will focus on writing for suspense. 

Lost and Found Story: Kidnapped!

Spellings

Year 5 Spelling List

Links to Websites

Grammar

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