Week

Aim and description of the lesson

Pupils finish the novel, and then reflect on its strengths and
distinctive qualities. They prepare a range of reasons why
the novel should win an award, in preparation for writing to
be completed in the following lesson.
During this lesson pupils continue to reflect on the novels
strengths and distinctive qualities. Having decided on
reasons why the class novel should win an award, they then
focus on how to communicate these reasons effectively in a
review.
Introduction to the new unit, Child of the 21 st Century.
Pupils to be introduced to the concept of information and
to revise methods for combining ideas into sentences.
The aim of this unit is to remind pupils of the features of
information texts (which they will probably have
encountered at primary school as Recount) and of
explanation texts.
To remind pupils about the features of information texts and
give they practice in identifying them and to consider how to
plan an interview so they can gather information for a report
into childhood.

To review the writing skills necessary to produce the final

reports, focusing particularly on using the language of
comparison.
Pupils to work collaboratively to collate the information
gathered from interviews, and to form ideas and opinions
about it.
To review the writing skills that will be needed to produce
the final reports and to remind pupils about the features of
explanation texts and to give them some practice in
identifying them.
The aim of this lesson is to consolidate work on developing
and combining ideas, and to practise using appropriate
language features for explanation texts.
The aim of this lesson is to consider how the language
features of explanations on how differ from those
explanations on why.
The aim of this lesson is to consolidate pupils
understanding of the features of explanations through
evaluating presentations, and to review learning.
Consolidation and revision for end of term assessment .
English Medium Term Plans
Year 7