Calmore Junior School
Literacy Long Term Plan Year 5
Year 5
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
NOT DEFINITE YET
Summer 2
Topic
Life in Space
Tomb Raiders
La Parisienne
Changing State
Off With Her Head
Subtheme
Lead Subjects
Planets
Science, DT
Egyptians
DT, History
Paris
Geography, Art
Solids Liquids Gases
Science
Tudors
Art,History, Music
Heads Shoulders Knees &
Toes
The Body
Science
Letter from Barnaby
written from up in the air
looking down on Y5
Adventure story (3wks)
Watch You tube extract
Watch video
Collection of burglary
objects in a bag
Watch film extract
Legend/Journey (2 weeks)
Suspense (2 WKS)
The Story of Isis and Osiris –
You tube
The dream Giver
Moral Humour Story
2 weeks
Gangsta Granny by David
Walliams
Large clue left in each
classroom saying
R*iche mou*nt
Portal
Kensukes Kingdom
Action
To persuade people to
watch a film version
(love conquers all)
choice
Film critique
To inform about the
different Egyptian Gods
suspense/Problem/plot
Explain how to catch a
monster (2WKS)
The Time Travelling Cat and
the Tudor Treasure by
Judith Jarman
Character and Dialogue
Explanation
Year 6
Non chron report (2 week)
Jabberwocky by CS Lewissee PP on T Resources
(1week)
Sa-Letter from The Afterlife
Visitors to Jurassic coast
??
HOOK
Fiction Genre
Fiction Text
Fiction Focus
Non-Fiction
Purpose
The Terrible Thing That
Happened to Barnaby
Brockett by John Boyne
Setting / Description
Explain/inform about
Barnaby flying
audience
Form
Non-Fiction
purpose
Readers of the newspaper
Newspaper Report on
Explain/inform about the
planets
Audience
Form
Poetry
Writing
Across the
Curriculum
Author to
read
Year 2
Posters about planets
Shortburst creative
writing-see photos on
TPool
SA-Diary entry of person
from space
SA-explanation on Space
John Boyne – The Terrible
Thing that happened to
Barnaby Brocket
Abridged Classics eg
Treasure Island/Gulliver’s
Travels/Peter Pan
Year 4
instructions
Persuasion (2WKS)
Character and Dialogue
Persuade people that
grannies should/ should not
be in the park (1week)
Listeners in Hyde park
speech
Grannies should be banned
from public places
(1week)
Government
discussion
SA-Persuasion best place to
live in Paris
Leaflet on Jurassic coast
Philip PullmanThunderbolts Waxworks
SA-explanation
Solids/liquids and gases
linked to water cycle
Gangsta Granny – David
Walliams
Explanation of The
Philosophers Stone and
what it is used for
Narrative Poem-The
Highwayman-see PP on T
Resources
Sa- Newspaper report of
Tudors
SA-Non chronological
report on Tudor Monarchy
Morris Gleitzman-Sticky
Beak
Defeating Villain
Problem / Plot (3week)
Explain how to survive on
an island (1week)
Michael
Pupil choice
Inform about life on the
island (1week)
Visitors to the Island
Pupil choice
Entertain (1week)
Pupil choice
Narrative pice
SA-persuade people to be
healthy
Kensuke’s Kingdom –
Michael Morpurg