Key Stage Two : English : Year Six Planning : Detective Stories
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences based on The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences
Lesson One : Word Suffixes
Identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots
Lesson Two : Sentence Clauses
Practise adding a range of phrase and clauses to different sentences using commas and conjunctions
Lesson Three : Character Viewpoints
Compose a selection of paragraphs to match the content of a story written from the viewpoint of one of the characters
Lesson Four : Story Paragraphs
Convert a selection of paragraphs from a detective story from the first to the third person
Lesson Five : Story Puzzles
Write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader
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