English

Autumn 1 - The Firework-Maker's Daughter

Key Learning

The Firework-Makers daughter ins fantasy story. This genre incldes elements of magic and the setting is in a fictional universe.  Towards the end of the unit, children will be writing their own version offolowing the structire of the original story. By then children will be able to:

• Use subordination for time.g. when, before and after
• explore and identify complex sentences using a range of conjunctions. g. when, before, after, while, until.
• use a comma to separate clause in complex sentences where the subordinate clause appears first.
• identify, generate and effectively use noun phrases. g. The blue butterfly with shimmering wings…
• select vocabulary from a vocabulary banks
• use inverted commas to punctuation direct speech (speech marks)

Explore the clips before to familiarise yourself with The Fireworkmakers Daughter.

English KS1 / KS2: The Firework-Maker’s Daughter' by Philip Pullman - BBC Teach

The Firework-Makers Daughter, chapter 1 https://youtu.be/a5hkaO_iRSw 

A PDF of the full story can be found in the files section.

The Rumaysa is a fantasy story, based on a well know fairy tale.   Towards the end of the unit, children will be firstly rewriting the story from one of the characters point of view. We will then be innovating the story, changing the characters and part of the setting before writing our own version of the 'twisted fairy tale'.