Creating Interest - Pirates
• Treasure chest, map, message in a
bottle left outside – Generate a question
around. (Easispeak microphones, digital
cameras)
•Message in a bottle to be sent to
school
•Letter and treasure map to be sent to
the children
•Treasure Hunt around outdoor
environment. (Walkie Talkie)
•Watch an exert from film Peter Pan
•Listen to music – Sea Shanty
Role Play – The Pirate Ship
Getting Started
• – Initial discussion
• – Class visit to Liverpool Maritime Museum
• – Environmental print
• – Thank you letter for the visit
Getting Permission to Build a Pirate Ship
• – Letters to Blackbeard
• – Application for planning permission
• – Plans
Making the Pirate Ship
• - Lists of things for Pirate ship
• - Labels, notices, signs
•- Posters for Grand Opening
• - Advertisements for jobs
• - Newspaper reports
• - Job advertisements
• - Job applications
• - Accident book
• - Rules ( Pirate Code)
Running the Pirate Ship
•– Lists of jobs
•– Stock lists
•– Rules
•– Instructions
Phase 1 – Reading / analysing
Non – Fiction
• Find treasure Chest - model how to pose questions, using the
Question Hand Encourage children to ask their own questions.
Discuss what we think will be in the chest.
• Watch power point presentation ‘Pirates’ Discuss what we know
about Pirates based on what we have seen so far.
• Create a ‘Know, Want, Learn’ grid about Pirates.
• Shared reading, use information books, ICT sources and/or video to
find the answers and record on the KWL grid. Analyse how
information texts work, using a non-chronological report about
Pirates focusing on page layout (heading, information, captions) and
language features (general, impersonal, technical vocabulary).
Phase 2 – Gathering Content
• Look at the pictures of pirates and annotate with descriptive
words and phrases. (TFW)
• Identify some of the general characteristics of pirates • Invent your own pirate using drawing, painting or
model making. Give your pirate a name that describes its main
characteristic,
• Role play being the pirate. Describe your invented pirate to a
partner.
Telephone conversations
Roving reporter
Hotseating
Speaking objects – hat , boots, jacket, eye patch
Phase 3 – Planning and Writing
• Demonstrate how to write a caption for a picture, or a simple non
chronological report to describe the invented pirate.
• Use the shared text to create a writing frame.
• Children write their own caption, or page for the information book about
pirates.
Phase 4 - Presentation
• Children use Digital blue cameras (or alternative) to film presentation –
The Pirate