Literacy Planning
Week beginning
20/6/05
Y5 – Higher ability
Unit
Persuasion/letters/leaflets
Reading Objective
Y5 T3 12 to read and evaluate letters, e.g. from newspapers, magazines, intended to inform, protest, complain, persuade, considering
(i) how they are set out (ii) how language is used, e.g. to gain attention, respect, manipulate
Y5 T3 13 to read other examples, e.g. newspaper comment, headlines, adverts, fliers. Compare writing which informs and persuades,
considering, e.g.the deliberate use of ambiguity, half-truth, bias; how opinion can be disguised to seem like fact;
Y5 T3 15 from reading, to collect and investigate use of persuasive devices: e.g. words and phrases
Writing Objective
Y5 T3 17 to draft and write individual, group or class letters for real purposes, e.g. put a point of view, comment on an emotive issue,
protest; to edit and present to finished state
Y5 T3 18 to write a commentary on an issue on paper or screen, (e.g. as a news editorial, leaflet), setting out and justifying a personal
view; to use structures from reading to set out and link points, e.g. numbered lists, bullet points
Y5 T3 19 to construct an argument in note form or full text to persuade others of a point of view and present the case to the class or a
group; evaluate its effectiveness.
Sentence/Word Objective
Y5 T3 S4 to use punctuation marks accurately in complex sentences
Speaking and Listening
Y5 T3 55 Listening
to analyse the use of persuasive language
e.g. how a speaker uses emphasis, rhetoric and gesture effectively.
Speaking
to present a spoken argument, sequencing points logically, defending views with evidence and making use of persuasive language
e.g. preparing a group presentation of the pros and cons of a current issue.
Key Questions
Can I choose language to persuade my reader to my point of
view?
Can I identify when bias has been used or opinion has been
disguised as fact?
Target children
School targeted children – JC CWx
Writing pilot targeted children – JC CWx RS SH RG CJ CWb
Can I write a letter or commentary to persuade others on an
emotive issue (e.g. fear of spiders)
Shared reading/writing Sentence/word
Look at the adverts from www.visit4info.com
Monday
(Burger King – Episode 3, Pepperami, WV Golf,
Heinz Beans)
Look at the ads and discuss their features.
By recapping what they already know about
persuasion and adverts. Make a ‘Top Tips’
spidergram of what makes successful adverts.
Independent work
Children think about the
slogans of the adverts and
write their own slogans for
keeping a lizard.
Encourage play on words,
alliteration, rhyming etc.
(=) RG CWb CB CG RH
SH RS with teacher.
(-) JC AB CWx CW CJ with
Emma.
ICT
Plenary/homework
Ask children to
share their slogans
and as a group
evaluate them as to
their use of words
play, alliteration,
rhymes etc.
Tuesday
Look at the websites on caring for leopard geckos members.lycos.co.uk/lepgeck/ ,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2004/0
9/16/features_pets_snakes_alive_feature.shtml and
for looking after a puppy http://www.petplanet.co.uk/petplanet/kids/kidspup
py.htm
As a group make 2 spidergrams – 1 to show the
benefits of keeping lizards and 1 to show the
disadvantages.
Tell the children that they are going to be split into
2 groups – half will persuade the class to buy a
lizard by comparing it with a dog and half will do
the opposite.
Talk about what the children will include in their
infomercial and what they will miss out. Remind
them that bias isn’t lying!
Children begin to plan their
infomercial for whichever
group they are in.
Look at organising it into
sections using a writing
frame
Slogan
Product description
Benefits
Bribes!
(=) RG CWb CB CG RH SH
RS with teacher.
(-) JC AB CWx CW CJ with
Emma.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Use the BBC skills wise site to reinforce use of
Children continue work on
commas in complex sentences and lists.
their infomercials
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/pu (=) RG CWb CB CG RH SH
nctuation/commas
RS with teacher.
(-) JC AB CWx CW CJ with
Emma.
Children produce the
polished version of their
written infomercial ready for
filming next week
Supply –
(=) RG CWb CB CG RH SH
RS with teacher.
(-) JC AB CWx CW CJ with
Emma.
Comprehension activities
(=) RG CWb CB CG RH SH
RS with teacher.
(-) JC AB CWx CW CJ with
Emma.
Share work so far
with a partner and
begin to redraft and
make improvements
(use Digital Blue to
record)
Work with a partner
of how they are
going to present
their infomercial on
camera.