Literacy Unit Summary Plan

Name: Class: Year Group: Four Non-fiction Unit 1 Term: Week Beginning:
Recounts: newspapers / magazines

Outcome Objectives

Write a newspaper/magazine that contains appropriate presentational and language In order that children make effective progress in core skills across the year, it is important that these Strands are planned
features relating to a particular viewpoint. for in every unit:
Strand 5 Word Recognition: decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) at KS1
Strand 6 Word Structure and Spelling at KS2.
Overview Strand 11 Sentence Structure and Punctuation at both key stages.

Analyse and identify the features of recount texts based on a real event. Ask and
answer: who, what, why, where, when? Demonstrate how to write a simple recount,
identifying use of first person and past tense before applying these features in draft
form as a basis for later work.
Read and discuss the concepts of fact and opinion in both recounts and an example
newspaper article. Explore issues raised within a text and how a reader's opinion
might be affected by the author's commentary.
Analyse newspaper/magazine texts, revise key organisational features and identify
language conventions. Redraft recount into newspaper article.
Study a visual text as the basis for a newspaper article. Use drama to study and
record character opinions alongside factual evidence. Plan, draft and write a
newspaper article that contains both factual and opinion based content.
Prior Learning
Check that children can already:
Identify past tense verb form.
Recall and record simple events in chronological order.
Identify time related vocabulary.
Recognise first and third person forms.
These are in addition to the Objectives listed below.
1. Speaking
Tell stories effectively and convey detailed information coherently for listeners.
2. Listening and responding
Compare the different contributions of music, words and images in short extracts from TV programmes.
7. Understanding and interpreting texts
Deduce characters' reasons for behaviour from their actions and explain how ideas are developed in non-fiction
texts.
8. Engaging with and responding to texts
Interrogate texts to deepen and clarify understanding and response.
9. Creating and shaping texts
Develop and refine ideas in writing using planning and problem-solving strategies.
Use settings and characterisation to engage reader's interest.
10. Text structure and organisation
Organise texts into paragraphs to distinguish between different information, events or processes.
Phase 1 approx 4 days
Analysis of the features of a simple recount based on
a real event. Application of these features in draft
form as a basis for later work.
Phase 2 approx 5 days
Reading and discussion on the concepts of 'fact' and
'opinion' in both recounts and an example newspaper
article.
Phase 3 approx 6 days
Analysis of newspaper or magazine texts, revising
key organisational features and identifying language
conventions. Re-drafting recount into a newspaper
article.
Phase 4 approx 5 days
Children study a visual text as the basis for a
newspaper article. Drama is used to study and record
character opinions alongside factual evidence.
Children plan, draft and write a newspaper article that
contains both factual and opinion-based content.
Phase 1 Learning outcomes
Children can organise and sequence a recount, identifying key
events.
Children can write a draft recount in the correct verb tense.
Phase 2 Learning outcomes
Children can orally distinguish between factual information
and opinions based on factual information.
Children can write a simple commentary on a recount
draft.
Children can identify and record factual information and
opinions based on factual information.
Phase 3 Learning outcomes
Children can identify key language and presentational features
of newspapers and magazines.
Children can draft a newspaper or magazine article based on a
recount.
Phase 4 Learning outcomes
Children can record evidence for a newspaper article based on
a range of evidence sources.
Children can develop an understanding of how an event can be
perceived from different viewpoints.
Children can plan, draft and publish a newspaper article using
the appropriate language and presentational features.
Resources
Interactive whiteboard (IWB)
Digital cameras and PC upload software
Range of local and national newspaper articles or magazines
Extract from a visual text containing a clear narrative sequence, for example
characters saved from peril by a superhero
Grammar for writing , Ref: 0107/2000, Year 4 units 20 and 21
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/6331/
Speaking, listening, learning: working with children in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage
2: drama - making it work in the classroom, Ref: 0624-2003
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/18497/pns_speaklist
en062403posters.pdf (PDF 467Kb)
Spelling bank: lists of words and activities for the KS2 spelling objectives: Year 4
objectives 6, 7 and 8
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63313/
Writing flier 5 - Recount: It happened like this..., Ref: 0532/2001
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/6335/nls_teachwritin
g053201reco5.pdf (PDF 140kb)
Y5/Y6 journalistic writing and RE (web-based)
http://ww.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/casestudies/literacy/403685/62214/
The English, history and geography sections of the National Curriculum in action
website include examples of journalistic writing
http://www.ncaction.org.uk/search/index.htm