Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 Transition
Aston Tower Primary School
2003
Planning sheet - lessons 1-5
Worksheets
Literacy Planning Sheet Transition Units Year 6 and 7
Test Level Objectives
To use a reading journal effectively to raise and refine
personal responses to a text and prepare for discussion
Lesson 1
Introduction to
reading
journals
Lesson 2
Analysing
Journal entries
which
compare texts
Lesson 3
Comparing
characters
Lesson 4
Applying –
writing a
journal entry
which
compares
texts
Lesson 5
Developing a
setting
Sentence Level Objective
To conduct detailed language investigations thorough
interviews, research and reading
Word Level Objectives
To practise and extend vocabulary
Whole Class
Independent/guided work (Differentiated)
Plenary
Use Ch3 of Kensuke’s Kingdom to introduce idea of log/journal
and the range of types of journal entry. Introduce the idea of using
a reading journal (Resource Sheet A).
Pupils start their own reading journals writing two or
three comments they would like to make to Michael
Morpurgo about aspects of Kensuke’s Kingdom and two
questions they would like to ask him about how he came
to write it?
As a web re example text 9
Share some of their
questions.
Reread the opening paragraph of Kensuke’s Kingdom; briefly
discuss its effectiveness as an opening. Read and discuss
opening of The Butterfly Lion (Resource Sheet B). Discuss and
analyse journal entry (Sample text 1) which compares the
openings.
Pupils read the opening of The Dancing Bear (Resource
Sheet B). In pairs or groups, they discuss and analyse a
journal entry which compares this opening with the
opening of Kensuke’s Kingdom in a chart or diagram or
prose.
How easy was it to
fill in chart with the
given information.
Discuss what we know about Kensuke from reading so far. Class
develop a proforma for a profile. Write a “school report” on
Kensuke’s behaviour, attitude, progress, abilities etc.
Pupils repeat process for Michael, fill in his profile
proforma and write a “school report”.
Class share ideas
to write a collective
report on Michael.
Reread description of Kensuke (pages 67 – 70 from Kensuke’s
Kingdom). Read the description of Roxanne in The Dancing Bear
(Resource Sheet B). Complete a chart to note the key points of
similarity and difference between the way in which the author
describes the two characters in the two books (Sample text 3).
Using this chart as a skeletal plan, demo-write the first two
sentence of a prose journal entry on same subject (Sample Text
3). T6
In reading journals, pupils complete the prose
comparison of how characters are described using the
appropriate language and some complex sentences to
make effective comparisons. T6, T12, S4, W6
Identify a point from
the chart and invite
examples of pupils’
developed
viewpoints.
Using the experiences of work with the artist to create a setting for
their own stories. Discuss how Michael Morpurgo may have
created his settings.
Pupils given descriptions of setting from Kensuke’s
Kingdom and have to develop what it would look.
Show not tell.