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Teaching Literacy in Year 6 - Term 1

These texts match the range for Year 6 term 1 in the NLS Framework for teaching. They can be used as part of the literacy hour. Select planning to see where they fit in to the medium term plan for term 1. Click on resources to see additional material to support the use of these texts.

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Wolves

Lesson Plan: Wolves Y6

Wolves Single User (PC)
Wolves, Non Chronological Report and Discussion Units for year 6. Contains all you need for two week units of work, lesson plans, differentiated non chronological reports to print, independent and guided group activities and more. (4.8mb Download) PC Version
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Wolves Discussion Year 6 Single User (PC)
Wolves Discussion Unit. Using sticky notes style layout, contains different arguments for introducing wolves back into the wild. (4.8mb Download) PC Version
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Text: The Secret Garden

Week 1 Plan: The Secret Garden

This book is useful to compare with the *video version because of the differences in seeing characters and settings and visualising them through description. There are also some scenes in the video which are faithful to the text.
In 1911, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle after her parents’ death. He is an
unhappy man who lives in a gloomy Victorian house on the Yorkshire moors. Together with two young servants, Mary finds garden hidden in the grounds, where adventures unfold. .

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Published by Hodder Children's Books
ISBN 0-340-61183-9
*BBC Family Classics Video
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Text: Boy; The Day Dreamer; The Wreck of the Zanzibar.

Week 2 Plan: Boy; The Daydreamer; The Wreck of the Zanzibar

These texts have been selected to illustrate what is special about the work of these established authors.

Boy
Author: Roald Dahl. - Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Published by Puffin Books - ISBN 0-14-131140-1
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The Daydreamer
Author: Ian McEwan. - Illustrator: Anthony Browne
Published by Red Fox Books - ISBN 0-09-947071-3
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The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Author: Michael Morpurgo. - Illustrator Christian Birmingham
Published by Mammoth Books - ISBN 0-7497-2620-2
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Text: The Butterfly Lion

Week 3 Plan: The Butterfly Lion

This text provides a good model for showing how interaction between characters is created and developed. In familiar Morpurgo style, the story begins with a flashback. The narrator, Millie tells the tale of her late husband Bertie who, as a child was given a lion cub in Africa. When he is sent to boarding school in England, the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie is determined to find the lion.
Author: Michael Morpurgo.
Illustrator: Christian Birmingham
Published by HarperCollins Books
ISBN 0-00-675103-2

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Text: Northern Lights

Week 4 Plan: Northern Lights

This fantasy/science fiction text demonstrates how the author develops the relationship between Lyra, a 12 year old girl and a bear named Iorek. There are daemons, witches and other lands in the book. The story also provides opportunity to investigate how the events might look from a different point of view, i.e. Lyra’s daemon Pantalaimon.
Author and Illustrator: Philip Pullman
Scholastic
ISBN 0-590-13961-4
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Text: Drugs Info File

Week 5 Plan: Drugs Info File

This text is used for building non-chronological reports about smoking and alcohol. It is an attractive and useful directory listing all drugs, legal and illegal. The content allows the reader to obtain the facts about drugs and deal with this difficult issue in a practical and unbiased way.
Author: Dr Miriam Stoppard
Art Editors: Trond Wilhelmsen, Keith Davis
Dorling Kindersley
ISBN 0-7513-0623-1
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Text: Why Do People Take Drugs?

Week 6 Plan: Why Do People Take Drugs?

This text is used to build a non-chronological report about smoking and alcohol.It has factual information, which has to be discussed before the organisation and features of a report can be introduced. Explanatory sections are also included; these can be used to help compile the structure of explanations in Term 2

Author: Patsy Westcott
Cover design: Hodder Children’s Books. Picture acknowledgement: Popperfoto
Hodder Children’s Books
ISBN 07502 2762 1
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Text: Pila Wuk, Anne Frank - Life Stories

Week 7 Plan: Pila Wuk, Anne Frank - Life Stories

Please Note, This book is currently out of print, see alternative plan below
This oral history, written as an autobiography, this text demonstrates the recount genre of Pilawuk, a young girl with an Aboriginal mother and a non-Aboriginal father, telling about her separation from her family, because of the Australian government policy of making Australia “white”. Photographs and maps enhance this compelling story.
Pilawuk by Janeen Brian. Illustrated by Sascha Hutchinson.
ISBN 1-86374-257-3 Published by Era Publications

This text provides a good example of a biography, in the recount genre. It tells the story of the young Jewish girl who was forced into hiding in an attic in Holland before being captured by the Nazis, culminating in her death two months before the end of the Second World War.
Anne Frank, Life Stories by Wayne Jackman. Illustrated by Jon Davis.
ISBN 0-7502-1677-8 Published by Wayland
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Week 7 Alternative: Anne Frank - Life Stories, Memories, Anne Frank

Week 7 Alternative Plan: Anne Frank - Life Stories, Memories, Anne Frank

Anne Frank, Life Stories
by Wayne Jackman. Illustrated by Jon Davis.
ISBN 0-7502-1677-8
Published by Wayland
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Memories - An Autobiography -
Written by Mem Fox. Design by Steven Woolman
Published by Era Publications
ISBN 1 86374 0244
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Anne Frank Picture Book
Written by David Adler, Illustrated by Karen Ritz
Published by Macmillan Childrens Books
ISBN 0330331922
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Text: Boy, War Boy

Week 8 Plan: Boy, War Boy

The text provides the reader with memories about Roald Dahl’s fascinating life, told using a mixture of facts, lots of description and strong opinions.
Boy by Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake
ISBN 0-14-131140-1         Published by Puffin Books
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Another good text for supporting the writing of autobiography; memories of the Second World War and Michael’s childhood mix fact and fiction.
War Boy Written and illustrated by Michael Foreman
ISBN 0-14-034299-0          Published by Puffin Books
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Text: William Shakespeare's Plays, Midsummer Nights Dream

Week 9 Plan: William Shakespeare's Plays, Midsummer Nights Dream

Week 10 Plan: William Shakespeare's Plays, Midsummer Nights Dream

Presented and illustrated by Marcia Williams
ISBN 0-7445-6946-X Published by Walker Books
This selection of Shakespeare's plays, written in comic format, aids narrative structure by retelling the main story in simplified language. This also helps to make his plays accessible to Key Stage 2 children.
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An Introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream by Linda Marsh. Illustrated by Stephen May ISBN 0-582-33413-6 Published by Longman
Also available in small format.
This text offers a good model for the organisation of a playscript, along with a strong narrative structure. It also provides very useful background information, to help the reader understand the beliefs and practices of the time; a short biography is also included.
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Text: Spotlight on Poetry: Classic Poems 3

Week 11 Plan: Spotlight on Poetry: Classic Poems 3

Week 12 Plan: Spotlight on Poetry: Classic Poems 3

The Witches Spell from Macbeth and the poem from King Lear are used from this text as part of the unit about Shakespeare. Other poems from the book using similar themes can be explored to be read as models for children writing their own poetry.

Cover design by Clare Truscott and Kate Roberts.
ISBN 000-310335-8 Published by Collins Books
Available in small format
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