This year 2 unit of work is based on Usborne Young Reading: The Tempest adapted by Rosie Dickens. Miranda and Prospero live in isolation on a desert island but when a magical storm causes a shipwreck, they are faced with new people and old enemies. This is a reworking of William Shakespeare’s classic romantic tale which is accessible to younger primary aged pupils and developing readers.  

The unit comprises 15 sessions of English planning and focuses on mastering key writing skills (grammar, vocabulary and punctuation) from the national curriculum. Opportunities to develop reading comprehension, writing composition and spoken language skills are also woven throughout the unit.

In addition, this unit has regular opportunities for pupils to work on performance skills.

Mastery skills:

• Add suffixes to spell longer words (e.g -ment,- ful)
• Use subordination (when, if, that, because) and co-ordination (or, and, but)
• Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
• Use present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive and present perfect forms

Short writing opportunities:

• Warnings/Instructions
• Spells
• Character descriptions
• Poetry
• Message in a bottle
• Recount of key events
• Descriptions of a storm

Resources: PowerPoints, lesson planning and abridged methodology.

This unit can be used individually or as part of a whole-school themed project with our other units on this theme.

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