Overview Revision and Inspiration - Year 6 Spring term

Block / Number of
Sessions / Text / Genre/Teaching focus/SPAG / Activities/Contexts
A / 5 / Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 1 The Boy Who Lived
Chapter 2 The Vanishing Glass
Chapter 3 The Letters from No One
Chapter 4 The Keeper of the Keys / Letter writing
·  Word classes
·  Sentence punctuation
Story Openings
·  Ways to open stories/story hooks / Immersion into Harry Potter’s world.
Reading letters to and from characters in the wizarding world.
Writing a Howler in role.
B / 6 / Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 5 Diagon Alley
Chapter 6 Platform 9 3/4
Chapter 7 The Sorting Hat / Descriptive and predictive writing
·  Modal verbs/possibility
·  Noun phrases
·  Relative clauses / Describing the wizarding world.
Predictive writing about being sorted/which house would you be sorted into?
C / 5 / Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 8 The Potions Master
Chapter 9 The Midnight Duel
Chapter 10 Halloween / Instructional texts and a Guide (to surviving Hogwarts)
·  Sentence forms
·  Apostrophes for contraction and possession / Instructions for broom riding & survival guides.
Sentence forms for arguments.
D / 6 / Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 11 Quidditch
Chapter 12 The Mirror of Erised
Chapter 13 Nicolas Flamel
Chapter 14 Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback / Information texts and explanations
·  Adverbials/fronted adverbials
·  Sentences/phrases/clauses and active verbs
·  Parenthesis / Reading a wizarding textbook.
Developing Quidditch commentaries.
Explaining how the magical items work.
E / 5 / Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Chapter 15 The Forbidden Forest
Chapter 16 Through the Trapdoor
Chapter 17 The Man with Two Faces / Narrative
·  Expressing time, place and cause
·  Conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions
·  Cohesion within paragraphs / Rewrite a narrative from a different point of view.
Discuss the reasons for Harry Potter’s popularity.

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Block / Number of
Sessions / Text / Genre/Teaching focus/SPAG / Activities/Contexts
F / 6 / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Extracts from Book 3 – the inflation of Aunt Marge and the Knight Bus journey
Extracts from Book 5 – the villainous Delores Umbridge and the Weasley Twins’ grand exit / Chronological writing
·  Verbs and tense (progressive and perfect)
·  Cohesion between paragraphs
·  Formal and informal writing (including the subjunctive) / Writing formal and informal recounts and reports of exciting events.
G / 5 / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Extracts from Book 3 – the trial of Buckbeak
Extracts from Books 3 & 5 – Magical and comic inventions of Fred & George / Persuasive writing
·  Active and passive voice
·  Adverbs of possibility
·  Subordinate clauses / Arguing the case for and against Buckbeak.
Writing adverts for Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes and other tempting Diagon Alley products.
H / 6 / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Extracts from Book 3 – reports of Sirius Black and his escape from Azkaban
Extracts from Book 4 – Rita Skeeter and her reports for the Daily Prophet / Dialogue, conversation and Newspapers
·  Dialogue & reported speech
·  Colons, semi colons, commas
·  Bullets / Interviewing characters.
Eavesdropping.
Writing newspaper reports.
I / 3 / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Extract from Book 5 – Fred and George explaining the OWL grades (incl. T for Troll)
What does ‘Exceeding Expectations’ mean for Fred and George?
Extract from Book 5 – O.W.L.s commence, and Ron and Hermione clash over different approaches to revision and exams. / Testing and Celebration
·  Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling tests
·  Comprehension test
·  Celebration! / Reading about wizarding exams.
Holding formal tests. Celebrating the topic, Hogwarts’ Style!

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