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Reading

Reading regularly is vital in Year 6 as it helps the children broaden their vocabulary, and enables them to make better progress in every curriculum area. It also helps them to become better writers as they begin to understand how different techniques can be used to interest the reader.

Reading has an enormous impact on children’s learning. For this reason, we have a huge focus on the teaching of reading. We use whole class reading sessions to improve children's understanding of reading skills using the VIPERS skills.

Fostering a love of books and reading is of great importance. If children enjoy what they are doing, they will learn more effectively. A love of reading leads to better life chances.

During whole class reading sessions, children investigate new and unfamiliar vocabulary, learn how to understand what questions are actually asking and how to best answer them. We also work on reading speed and accuracy.

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Writing

Writing in Year 6 covers a wide range of text types. Through different genres of writing, children will learn the key features of text types and how to make good use of a range of grammar skills to improve the effectiveness of their writing.

Understanding the Year 6 Writing TAF

The Year 6 Writing Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF) is used by teachers to assess children’s writing at the end of primary school. It helps teachers decide whether a child is working at the expected standard for the end of Year 6.

Rather than assessing children through one test, teachers look at a range of writing completed throughout the year, across different subjects and for different purposes. They consider how independently children can apply the writing skills they have been taught.

What are we looking for in Year 6 writing?

To meet the expected standard, children need to show that they can:

Write for different purposes and audiences – for example, stories, formal letters, persuasive arguments, explanations and newspaper reports.
Organise their writing clearly – using paragraphs to group ideas, connect information and help the reader follow the text.
Use a range of vocabulary – choosing words carefully to create meaning, describe effectively and engage the reader.
Use a variety of sentence structures – including simple, compound and complex sentences to make their writing interesting and clear.
Use punctuation accurately – including commas, apostrophes, inverted commas for speech, brackets, dashes and other punctuation where appropriate.
Spell words accurately – including many words from the Year 5 and Year 6 spelling lists.
Use grammar correctly – including verb tenses, pronouns and a range of grammatical structures.
Proofread and edit their work – checking for mistakes and making improvements to spelling, punctuation, grammar and word choices.

Autumn 1

The Piano

The Piano is a flashback narrative based on short animation by Aidan Gibbons.

Studying the film and the themes that run through short clip generates some fantastic speaking and listening opportunities as well as some amazing writing.

The children got a chance to listen to the music to see how it made them feel. they linked it to the past and remembered what happened. Then they listened to the music with the lonely man to began to understand his feelings and memories.

Whilst thoughts rushed swiftly through his mind, the lonesome man tapped his fingers gently on each key. Soothingly, the music reminded him of his past memories however unfortunately the music only made him remember the sombre, sad and depressing memories. Sorrow ran through him.

Autumn 1

The children began reading a story that took place in The Titanic called I Was There...

This is a perfect introduction for younger readers into stories from the past, allowing children to imagine that they were really there. I Was There... Titanic is the story of a young girl travelling 3rd class on board the RMS Titanic with her mother as they plan to start a new life in America. When disaster strikes, will Jessie make it to the lifeboats in time?

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Then working with their talk partner, the children came up with descriptions of what their could see, smell, touch and hear as if they were on the ship.

Some of the phrases were:

The wood pannelled staircase was polished to a very high standard.

As I sat on the red leather chair in the lounge, I could hear the joyful laughter of women enjoying each others company.

The sunlight was gleaming through the stain glass windows.

The children descibed what it was like on the Titanic.

Autumn 1 - Flashbacks and Biographies

Year 6 are studying novels based on the Titanic and using the short animation of The Piano to inspire their own flashback writing.

We are also studying biographies this half term. We will be immersing ourselves in many different biographies and analysing the features of them to support our own writing. One of the biographies we use is Walt Disney

The children read about the three people and how interesting their life became throughout the years.

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We will also be looking at:

Malala Yousafzai Ellie Simmonds. Marcus Rashford.

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Autumn 2

This term, the children will be looking at The Wizard of Oz.

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The Wizard of Oz / Cast

Dorothy Gale The Tinman The Cowardly Lion The Scarecrow

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The Wicked Witch The Good Witch The Great Wizard

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