KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 6
Literary Theme: Evolution & Inheritance
Author(s): Martin Jenkins
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkoins. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.
Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots 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.
There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.
category, environment, existence, nuisance, persuade, sufficient, suggest
Words containing the letter-string ough
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer
A Writing Root is available for Can We Save the Tiger?.
Letter, explanation, persuasive poster, persuasive speech, simple poem
Discussion text
15 sessions, 3 weeks
This is a three-week Writing Root based upon Can We Save the Tiger by Martin Jenkins and Vicky White, but also using the poem The Tyger by William Blake from Songs of Innocence and Experience. Children begin by exploring an argument from another group’s perspective, before going on to read the text. During the sequence of learning, children create posters, persuasive speeches, poems (as well as having the opportunity to lean a poem by heart), explanation texts and discussion texts. The final outcome gives children the opportunity to research an animal of their choice, before writing and publishing their discussion text.
Tigers are big, beautiful and fierce. But, like many other animals, they are in danger of becoming extinct. With breathtaking illustrations this large-format picture book tells us about the threats to the many endangered species on our planet and the need to prevent their extinction.
The plight of tigers and many other critically endangered animals are highlighted in this visually stunning picture book. As a starting point for discussing conservation and protection, children will learn important environmental messages and understand the need to raise awareness of how to look after what we have left. Compelling illustrations by Vicky White accompany powerful text by Martin Jenkins and the book may act as a springboard into other non-fiction texts on the same theme.
Conservation, activism, speciesism, Darwinism, evolution, adaptation, extinction, endangered animals, captivity, protection
Date written: August 2016
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