This year 5/6 unit of work is based on Bold and Brave Women from Shakespeare by The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. This beautifully illustrated book shares stories of twelve of Shakespeare’s courageous, strong-willed and determined female characters.

Our mixed age planning was written to support a variety of school settings.  From one mixed age class to a school with several mixed age classes, the planning can be flexibly adapted using a range of cycles to suit. Cycles of mixed age planning are available for years 1/2, 3 /4, 4/5 and 5/6. They have been carefully thought out to ensure progression and coverage of skills for each of the year groups whilst retaining high quality texts suitable for the age range. We are always happy to advise on different configurations of classes and how Pathways to Write can be adapted to suit any circumstance.

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:

Year 5:

• Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or an omitted relative pronoun
• Use adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility
• Use a wider range of devices to build cohesion across paragraphs
• Link ideas using tense choices

Year 6:

• Propose changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
• Choose the appropriate register
• Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses

Short writing opportunities:

• Description
• Playscript
• Diary
• Speech
• Letter

Resources: PowerPoints, lesson plans 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.

The supporting texts for the units of work can be purchased at Peters Ltd at 30% off the RRP price of the books*:
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