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Friday

 Grammar Warm Up

LC: to create sentences with fronted adverbials 

 Complete these sentences with fronted adverbials.

When Finn MacCool saw the Scottish giant coming across the causeway 

When Bennadonner saw the giant baby in the bath 

As the dragon was causing so many deaths 

 

Can you think of one more?

Remember the punctuation after the fronted adverbial! 

 

LC: to identify and discuss conventions in and across a range of texts 

Let's look at the legends we have read or seen so far. 

How are they the same?

Think about

 

characters

setting

plot

 

 

Discuss with your talk partner - make notes on how the three stories are similar.

 

 Complete answers to the questions above.

Let's create a Legends Toolkit.

 

LC: to be able to read and represent numbers to 1,000,000 using place-value counters  

Friday 5th September 2025

LC: To demonstrate active reading strategies making connections within a text.

Good readers use their background knowledge to connect with what they read.

Background knowledge 

ON

Text to self    

 

Text to world       

 

Text to text 

the mysterious benedict society pdf.pdf

Independent 

Read the prologue of Cloudlanders and complete your own making connections responses in your reading journals.

cloudlanders prologue pdf.pdf

 LC: to use my understanding of timelines to know when the Ancient Greek civilisation existed

 

What do you know about the Ancient Greeks?

When did they live?

Where in the world did they live?

How did they live?

Do you know any Greek myths?

Can you name any Greek islands? 

 

Tell your talk partner.

Click on the image below to learn more about the Ancient Greeks.

 

Now, tell your talk partner what you have learned about the Ancient Greeks. 

Let's look at when the Ancient Greeks lived in history. 

 

What  year is it now?

Is it AD or BC?

Look at the timeline of world history below.

Mark up on your screen all the dates that happened BC.

What does the 

show?

Discuss the answers to these questions with your talk partner.

 

Look at this map of Ancient Greece.

Now, find where Greece is on this map of Europe.

 

 

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