English Weekly Plan

Year 5 Spring Term

Text Focus and Genre: Explanation

Text Features:

Genre criteria  Day GPS to be taught from Day 5

Text explains how/why something works or happens  6
Title may be a question /text answers question
Text may begin with ‘How’ or ‘Why’ 
Introductory opening statement 
Information in a series of steps 
Diagrams, if helpful 
Chronological order 
Present tense 
Technical vocabulary 
Time and causal conjunctions 
Group Objectives:
Links ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time, place
and number or tense choices
Uses relative clauses with/without relative pronoun
Proof reads own work for spelling, grammar and punctuation
errors (self-corrects)

Stage of Writing Day and Vocabulary Modelled Short Burst Spelling Handwriting
objective (Games) Could include Writing Games/Activities For area being
 Introduce story Ideas from text – – more detail looked at from
vocab map/boxing could be needed. penpals – 2-3
More detail up/drama following days at least.
needed here. activities etc. particular
features,
grammar etc.
Cold Task 13.3.20 Today I am Explain it! Talk through Children to write Spelling test and
getting better Tell a friend ideas as to what their full cold dictation for Y5/6
at writing an about could be task. CEW
explanation something included in an
text. that they don’t explanation text
know about. from previous
knowledge
1: Learn the text Pupils create
using best map own text map
Imitation

2: Use the map to Pupils

learn model text deconstruct good
Writing toolkit to examples of text
be created with using toolkit
class
3: Teach 2nd tier Model how to Comprehension
vocabulary use text to completed either
complete written or
comprehension activity
either written or
activity
4: Change class Pupils draw new
map and retell map and retell in
pairs
Innovation
5: Develop class Pupils develop
composition own non-fiction
using new map text – first draft
and toolkit
6: GPS activity Complete activity
depending on
need
7: Model how to Second draft of
redraft class text text
Independent (Hot task)

8: