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Year 5: Math - Amazing Animals
Y5 English Lesson Plan
Brilliant Biographies
This lesson plan covers a range of national curriculum objectives for upper key stage 2 (year 5), to support
a unit of work focusing on non-fiction. However, it could be adapted to use with younger or older learners.
We recommend you read through the plan carefully and adapt it to suit the needs of your learners,
considering how many sessions you’ll need to effectively cover each element. You may wish to expand on
one or more areas in the plan and extend the writing task over more than one lesson. You might even
choose to devote a day to the project and supplement this activity with other Guinness World Records
activities.
Although helpful, you do not need a copy of any Guinness World Records books to deliver this lesson.
The symbols used in this lesson plan and in the lesson presentation
indicate suggestions for partner work and group work.
Pair Work
Group Work
National curriculum learning objectives
Spelling:
Spell words with silent letters (e.g., doubt, island, lamb,
solemn, thistle, knight)
Grammar:
Use of parentheses
Use of speech punctuation
Use of apostrophes
Use four sentence types: statement, command,
exclamation, question
Reading:
Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction
Maintain positive attitudes to reading by reading books that
are structured in different ways, reading for a range of
purposes
Continue to learn the conventions of different types of
writing, such as the use of the first person in writing diaries
and autobiographies (non-statutory)
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Key vocabulary
Biography
Bullet points
Statement
Command
Exclamation
Question
Parentheses
Headings
Sections
Paragraphs
Chronological
Third person
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