Introduction; Unit 1. Different Voices - Different Times: Prologues and flashbacks; Interpreting details and textual clues, mood and atmosphere; Word origins and prefixes; Homographs; Phrases and sentences; Word classes; Standard and informal English; Sequencing a journey; Time connectives; Dialogue and punctuation; Characterisation and points of view; Writing as a character; Unit 2. People in the News: Headlines and news reports; Discussing issues; Language and layout; Facts and opinions; Writing a lead; Linking paragraphs and connectives; Sentence types; Making notes; Proverbs; Autobiographies and obituaries; First and third person; Journalist technique; Expressing a view; Writing an article; Presenting a speech; Unit 3. Poems of Old and New: Reading, discussing and comparing poems; Using a glossary; Extending vocabulary; Shades of meaning; Word classes; Personification and narrative voice; Proverbs; Figurative language; Poetic techniques; Writing an opinion paragraph; Dramatising, interpreting and performing poems; Unit 4. Time Passing: Predicting; Language changes over time; Punctuation for purpose and effect; Active and passive voice; Creating suspense; If clauses and conditionals; Empathising with characters; Giving a speech; Features of science fiction; Working with voices and mood; Linking chapters and paragraphs; Planning and writing an extended story; Reading aloud; Unit 5. Poles Apart: Reading, assessing and writing reports; Making notes; Summarising information; Comparative adjectives and connectives; Active and passive voice; Discussing controversial issues; Arguing a case; Using formal English; Conditional clauses; Fact and opinion; Varying tenses; Literal and figurative language; Identifying a biased view; Debating a topic; Unit 6. Words at Play Reading poems for fun; Poetic licence; Exploring nonsense verse; Changing texts to Standard English; Comparing poems; Inventing words; Revising spelling and punctuation; Homophones and homonyms; Contractions, compound and portmanteau words; Structure and flow; Rhyming words and word power; Making shape poems; Writing limericks; Unit 7. A different Medium: Comparing Shakespeare in different formats; Features of different written formats and multimedia; Book structure; Figurative language; Semicolons and colons; Compound adjectives, suffixes and spelling; Complex sentences and connectives; Analysing cartoon and graphics; Describing characters in a story; Giving a presentation; Narrative style; Planning and writing a story episode; Unit 8. Make it Happen: Sharing points of view; Comparing text features and style; Reading and writing different reports; Using punctuation and quotes; Following instructions; Choosing language to suit purpose; Connectives, complex sentences and If clauses; Designing instructions; Magazine style and second person narrative; Making notes and summarising; Command verbs; Creating a group magazine; Unit 9. Snapshot: Creating poetic snapshots; Reading, writing and discussing poems; Inferring deeper meaning; Choosing precise words using a thesaurus; Dialogue in poetry; Conversational style and narrative voice; Analysing and comparing poetic form and features; Effects created by poetic devices; Using imagery and figurative language; Writing a poem using a memory; Spelling Activities; Term 1: Revise common spelling sounds; Recognising unstressed vowels; Prefixes can give clues to meaning; Suffixes can change the meaning of words; Tricky endings; Not wrong, just different; Term 2: Revise common spelling sounds; Soft and hard c and g; Forming nouns from verbs; Working with opposite prefixes; Revise a spelling rule; Term 3: Revise common spelling sounds; Choose precise words; Homophones and homographs; The prefix ad; Revise a spelling rule; Toolkit: Presentation skills; Nuts and bolts of writing; Keeping a learning journal; Using an etymological dictionary; Extra unit materials; Acknowledgements.
