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Guidance for English Slides

• Refer to year group planning for the sequence of lessons and

resources required for each lesson.

• Try to follow lessons in order.
• Follow the lesson slides in order, reading each one carefully. If

there are questions or tasks, try to answer these before reading answers on following pages.

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Starter

Challenge:

Complete Gold then add another sentence including a ; for 2 independent clauses.

The yellow-spotted lizard has sharp claws. Add a simile to enhance this sentence. Add a metaphor to enhance this sentence.

Add a metaphor to enhance this sentence and include an embedded subordinate clause.

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The Big Picture

This is a non-fiction unit of work based on a text called 'Holes', by Louis Sachar You will write: a diary entry about Holes An information text about the Yellow Spotted Lizard

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Recap... Read through model text to understand what a high quality information text looks like

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Date: LO: I can write an information text If you find including a feature challenging, include this in your success criteria triangle. Refer to both the grid and the triangle as you write and tick off once you have included each feature.

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Look through slides and ensure that you have written up all of the information included on your mind-map and have included every feature from your success criteria triangle. Complete silver. Then, aim to include a semi colon and a colon. Complete Bronze and ensure you have included all features on the year 5 assessment grid. Date:

LO: I can write an information text.

Complete gold. Ensure you include influences of what you read in your writing and an idiom. Consider the effect of your writing on the reader.

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Leave room on your report to draw a picture of your lizard at the end

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What sentences starters could we use for our information text? Here are some ideas

With eleven yellow spots, Approach the ... with care, Dangerous to its victims, Normally growing up to .. On average, With its red skin around its eyes, With camouflage yellow eyes, Due to.. If you act carelessly, These cold-blooded creatures, Lethal to their prey Surrounding its ... Beady, yellow eyes peer Furthermore, Unlike ... Usually Surviving Inhabiting In nature In addition

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Paragraph 1: Physical Appearance - teacher shared example How can we turn our mind map into sentences? Unlike any other reptile, this creature's viridescent-green body is covered in eerie-yellow spots, which warn predators that they are deadly; this is how the critter's get their

• name. In contrast to the bright-green scales, the two intense yellow eyes, are surrounded by

crimson coloured flesh, which allow the lizard to have night-vision. They have obsidian-like teeth and a milky-white tongue. In addition, the yellow-spotted lizard has short legs, although they are powerful enough to jump out of a 5ft hole to catch their prey.

Physical Appearance

Skin covered in yellow spots Each lizard has 11 Spots are hard to identify Eyes are red Skin around the eyes is red too

Word bank:

small but deadly

possesses luminous fulfill camouflage continuous prey

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Write paragraph 1: Physical Appearance

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Paragraph 2: Habitat and Diet- teacher example

How can we turn our mind-map into sentences?

Word bank:

climate arid

• mnivore

nature partial quantities

Preferring to live in hotter climates, the yellow-spotted lizard will often be found in dry, arid locations such as the desert in Texas, USA. With regards to their diet, they eat small insects, such as: caterpillars, spiders and centipedes. Often looking to find shade to stay cool, they can usually be located within

• ne of the many holes at Camp Green Lake. Did you know that up to 20

can live in a single hole? Despite its volatile nature, they are prey to a number

• f predators: eagles and snakes; their predators are always significantly larger

than them. Finally, these strange reptiles are cold-blooded, therefore they rely

• n the sun's heat to keep their bodies warm.

Habitat and Diet

Lives in hot, dry climates Texas, USA

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Write paragraph 2: Habitat and Diet

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Self-assessment What have you included in your writing so far? Tick it off on your success criteria and assessment grid.

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Paragraph 3: Attack and Defense Strategies - teacher shared example

How can we turn our mind-map into sentences? Word bank:

prey defense strategies habitat environment territory terrain

Rarely leaving their holes, ensures that sightings of the yellow-spotted are few and far between. In fact, scarcely any humans, who have witnessed the creature, have lived to tell the tale; frequently the yellow-spotted lizard's venomous bite is fatal.

Habitat and Diet

Powerful legs Springs out of holes upon its prey

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Write paragraph 3: Attack and Defense Strategies

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Self-assessment What have you included in your writing so far? Tick it off on your success criteria and assessment grid.

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Once you have finished, draw a picture of your lizard!