Shakespeare and More Text-based Curriculum Map- English- Year Three This map outlines the texts that will be taught in English lessons, covering the teaching of reading, writing and spoken language. In addition to this, children will be taught specific aspects of English through small group reading, independent reading, listening to books read aloud, phonics teaching, and discrete spelling and handwriting lessons. Unit Example Texts Ongoing Outcomes Writing for Purpose English Language Opportunities On-going Language Teaching Classic Narratives (2 x 2-3 weeks) The Odyssey The Adventures of Odysseus by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden The Odyssey retold by Robin Lister The Iliad and The Odyssey retold by Marcia Williams Sinbad the Sailor The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor by John Yeoman) Myths from Across the World Myths and Legends by Anthony Horowitz Oral retellings of stories Book reviews or personal responses Character studies Drama and role-play Entertain: Extended narrative- retelling the story as first-person narrative, with own adventures. Diary- a character’s diary telling the story from their point of view (e.g. Odysseus or Sinbad). Letters- letters from characters in the stories to one another (Penelope or Telemachus to Odysseus). Describe: Detailed description of one setting from a text (The Island of the Lotus Eaters or the City of Troy). Inform: A short non-fiction text about a country or time in history from one of the books studied. Inverted commas to punctuate direct speech Expressing time and cause using conjunctions (e.g. when, so, before, after, while, because); adverbs (e.g. before, after, during, because of) or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of)
Narrative- creating own 3-page picturebook, using illustrations and text to tell story. Describe: Detailed description of a setting from the story (e.g. city from the gargoyles viewpoint or Fungus’ home). (e.g. before, after, during, because of) or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of) Well-loved Narratives (3-4 weeks) Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes The Iron Man by Ted Hughes The BFG by Roald Dahl The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Oral retellings of stories Book reviews or personal responses Character studies Drama and role-play Entertain: Narrative- writing a missing story from the collection explain how a creature came to be the way it is (based on stories from Just So Stories or How the Whale Became). Playscript- retelling a story as a playscript (and then performing it). Inform: A short non-fiction text about a creature from one of the books studied (e.g. what the rhinoceros or whale are actually like). Inverted commas to punctuate direct speech Expressing time and cause using conjunctions (e.g. when, so, before, after, while, because); adverbs (e.g. before, after, during, because of) or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of) Shakespeare Stories (2-3 weeks) The Tempest Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Oral retellings of stories Drama and role-play Discuss: Character study of one character showing understanding of story and themes. Persuade: Expressing time and cause using conjunctions (e.g. when, so, before, after, while, because); adverbs (e.g. before, after,
Persuasive essay argument to answer key question from text (e.g. Is Prospero is a good father?). during, because of) or prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of) Headings and subheadings to aid presentation Non-Fiction (2 x 2 Range of high quality (both books and online/apps) linked to wider topic/foundation subjects Book reviews or personal responses Summary of new ideas considered/facts learnt Inform: Pages of non-fiction books/webpages linked to topic studied and based on books that have been read. Headings and subheadings to aid presentation Biography (1-2 weeks) Picture book biographies, such as: Enormous Smallness by Matthew Burgess (about EE Cummings) On Beam of Light by Jennifer Berne (about Albert Einstein) Star Stuff by Stephanie Roth Sisson (about Carl Sagan) Books from the Little People, Big Dreams series (Marie Curie, Maya Angelou or Frida Kahlo, for example) Book reviews or personal responses Summary of new considered/facts learnt Inform: A short illustrated biography of a significant character from history, based on research. paragraphs as a way to group related material Headings and subheadings to aid presentation
Instructions (1 week) Recipes or instructions from real life or drawn from a text Oral instructions and directions Instruct: Writing instructions linked to real life experiences or from situation in a book. Instruct: Directions map of local area or from a book. Instructions (2 x 1 week) Recounts (Ongoing) Linked to educational visits and visitors to school/workshops or from imaginative work in drama Inform: Recounts from real experiences or imagined worlds of drama. Use of the perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause Poetry (3 x 1 week) A broad range of different types of poems from: The Rattle Bag compiled by Seamus Heaney Ted and Hughes The Nation’s Favourite Children’s Poems The Ring of Words edited by Roger McGough iF Poems (as a book or app) Please Mrs Butler by Alan Ahlberg Different types of poems, including: Narrative poems Personal response / book review Performance of poem Entertain: Write own poems based on existing poems (e.g. a narrative poem with a based on Adventures of Isobel by Ogden Nash or a poem set in school, such as those in Please Mrs Butler.
Calligrams/shape poems Haiku Kennings Poetry (1 week) Children’s own choice of poem Performance of poem Hand-written version of poem for class anthology Persuade: Short comment to accompany chosen poem explaining why everyone should read it.