Read & Respond the BFG: Correlation to the 2014 Curriculum

Read & Respond The BFG: Correlation to the 2014 Curriculum

Section / Lesson title / Page / Objective(s) /
Plot character and setting / Mixing the story / 11 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
Plot character and setting / The witching hour / 11 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context.
Plot character and setting / Which country? / 12 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas.
Plot character and setting / Nice and jumbly / 12 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph, identifying key details that support the main ideas.
Plot character and setting / Storyboard / 13 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To draft and write by using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, underlining).
Plot character and setting / Happy endings / 13 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.
Plot character and setting / Unlikely friends / 14 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justifying these with evidence.
Plot character and setting / Little and large / 14 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by checking that the book makes sense to them, discussing their understanding and exploring the meaning of words in context.
Talk about it / Story themes / 19 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.
Talk about it / Page-turners / 19 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
Talk about it / Funnybones / 20 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.
Talk about it / Dream on / 20 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
To proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
Talk about it / Langwitch! / 21 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Transcription: Spelling (see Appendix 1, English Programmes of study for Key Stages 1-2)
To use knowledge of morphology and etymology in spelling and understand that the spelling of some words needs to be learnt specifically, as listed in Appendix 1 (English Programmes of study for Key Stages 1-2).
Talk about it / Parallels / 21 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read by making comparisons within and across books.
Get writing / Journeys / 25 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To plan their writing by in writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what they have read, listened to or seen performed.
Get writing / Headline news / 25 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To draft and write by using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, underlining).
Get writing / Dream recipe / 26 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To draft and write by in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action and by using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, underlining).
Get writing / The Fleshlumpeater’s story / 26 / Years 5-6 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand what they read by drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justifying these with evidence.
Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To draft and write by using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, underlining).
Get writing / What’s in a name? / 27 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To draft and write by using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, underlining).
Get writing / Whoppsy whiffling blurb / 27 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To draft and write by précising longer passages and by using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader (e.g. headings, bullet points, underlining).
Assessment / The BFG – the sequel / 31 / Years 5-6 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To plan their writing by in writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what they have read, listened to or seen performed.