This year 4 Honouring Stories-themed unit of work is based on Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker. Counting on Katherine tells the extraordinary tale of Katherine Johnson, a young mathematical genius who faced terrible segregation throughout her life. This true story recounts how Katherine’s boundless curiosity, skill and determination eventually led her to become one of NASA’s most prominent mathematicians.
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.
‘Honouring Stories’ is a collection of units designed to inspire children, through their writing in English, by exploring the stories of individuals alongside those who have made significant contributions to society, culture and history.
Mastery Skills:
- Expand noun phrases by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases
- Use fronted adverbials
- Use paragraphs to organise information and ideas around a theme (to organise and sequence more extended narrative structures)
- Choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
- Use commas after fronted adverbials
Short writing opportunities:
- Description
- Character description
- Diary
- Letter of application
- Dialogue
- Biography
- Letter
Resources: PowerPoints, lesson planning and abridged methodology.
This Honouring Stories themed collection of units aligns with skills and progression covered in Pathways to Write, Autumn 1. They are a great choice to link in with Black History Month in October.
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