English - Autumn 2

This half term, English lessons will focus on the text 'Can we Save the Tiger' by  Martin Jenkins. This stunning and informative picture book tells us about the threats to the many endangered species on our planet and the need to prevent their extinction. We will focus on reinforcing some of the grammar objectives already covered in Year 5 whilst also introducing some new objectives in preparation for high school.

Our Mastery Keys this term:

• use a variety of conjunctions and sentence types;
• use modal verbs and adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility;
• use brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis. 

Our text-based approach to writing will help us to build our writing stamina as we work towards writing an explanation text about tigers.

During our reading lessons, we will first exlore the Literacy Company's own text 'Martha's Suitcase'. We will then move onto 'A Place Called Perfect' by Helena Duggan.

Alongside weekly Pathways to Read sessions, we will be using VIPERS questioning to further develop our comprehension skills.