Book status: The book for this planning sequence is currently reprinting or out of print and therefore not in stock at most booksellers. If you do not already own the book, we would recommend this planning sequence as an alternative:
Alternative sequence
KS: Lower KS2
Year Group: Year 4
Author(s): Paul Fleischman
This is a Home Learning Branch for Weslandia. These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from the Literary Curriculum. They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.
A Planning Sequence is available for Weslandia.
Retelling, character description, book review
Non-chronological report
15 sessions, 3 weeks
This is a three-week planning sequence based around the book Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. It begins with children creating a shelter for their own civilization, as a hook to create engagement with the text. The first part then continues with children making predictions, describing Wesley’s character and eventually retelling the story in their own words. In the second part, children begin by creating a non-chronological report, published as a brochure for Weslandia itself, using planning models and information from and inferred from the text. In the final part, children create their own civilization, based on Weslandia. Grammar and spelling objectives are embedded throughout.
Enter the witty, intriguing world of Weslandia! Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He’s learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own - civilization, that is. He turns over a plot of earth, and plants begin to grow. They soon tower above him and bear a curious-looking fruit. As Wesley experiments, he finds that the plant will provide food, clothing, shelter, and even recreation. It isn’t long before his neighbors and classmates develop more than an idle curiosity about Wesley - and exactly how he is spending his summer vacation.
Bullying, being yourself, difference, civilisations
View Weslandia Planning SequenceA Spelling Seed is available for Weslandia.
Overview:
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Weslandia by Paul Fleischman. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.
Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement the Literary Curriculum by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.
Spelling Seeds work alongside the texts within the Literary Curriculum and, as such, will also reflect the suggested number of weeks spent on a text, as well.
centuries, guide, history, learn, material, reign, believe, different, interest. popular, exercise, opposite
The /ɪ/ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words
The suffix -ous
View Weslandia Spelling SeedA Learning Log is available for Weslandia.
View Weslandia Learning Log
