Al Ain English Speaking School Weekly Literacy Planning Sheet

Newton International and British Schools Primary Mid-Term Planning

Subject : Literacy – SpaG Resources: Assessment Activities: Term: 2 Year Group: 6 Gold Stars Textbook Questioning throughout activities Vocabulary Required: Twinkl Planit Resource cards Correction of work completed in class and PowerPoints SPaG practice tests SAT & Twinkl Scholastic English Skills Weekly spelling test Grammar and Punctuation Correction of weekly spelling activity Workbook Peer and self-assessment Letts Make it easy English Workbook SAT SPaG papers Common word lists Year 6 Spelling scheme

Duration Topic Objectives Comment

SPaG RECAP Recap on each word class and what they are e.g. noun is a person/place/thing Recap on last term’s learning by looking at last term’s exams. Understand Children work in groups to find examples of each word where they went wrong and what areas they were successful in. Set class

k targets for the term ahead. Creation of a fun short story using every word class they e e have covered. w

1 Recap on punctuation and word classes. Know all the different word Whiteboard Game teacher shows a word pupils write the classes and forms of punctuation. Know how to answer questions on word class these areas. Matching activities of word class and words Recap on punctuation through interactive online games.

HOMOPHONES Children work in groups to find many groups of

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e Pupils will understand how to use the most common homophones. They Class activity on board circling the correct homophone to e w

will know how to use these orally and in written format. use 1 Twinkl activity homophones Around the World homophone game HIGHER LEVEL PUNCTUATION Example SPaG SAT questions

s Twinkl punctuation quizzes in PowerPoint format k

e Pupils will understand how to use higher forms of punctuation. Pupils will Recap of when we use these different forms of e w

SPaG understand how to use semi-colons, colons and dashes. They will know punctuation. 2 how to answer questions on these forms of punctuation as well as use Punctuating a paragraph them in their writing. Scholastic Grammar pg. 71-71

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