KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 6
Literary Theme: Utopia vs. Dystopia
Author(s): Piers Torday
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book The Last Wild by Piers Torday. 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.
equip (–ped,–ment), existence, committee, government, vegetable
Words ending in –able and –ible, ably and –ibly
Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
A Planning Sequence is available for The Last Wild.
Poster, retellings, formal report, character descriptions,diary entries, formal letters
Own version dystopian narrative
16 sessions, 3+ weeks
This planning sequence is slightly over three weeks and is based upon The Last Wild by Piers Torday. This is the first instalment of an exciting trilogy. Children will learn and revise many of the key grammar requirements of Y6 and have opportunity to apply them within short and longer written outcomes.
This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn't know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:
1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.
2. They are talking to him.
3. His life will never be quite the same again...
A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages.
Dystiopia, post-apocolyptic, animals, speciesism
View The Last Wild Planning SequenceA Home Learning Branch is available for The Last Wild.
This is a Home Learning Branch for The Last Wild. 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.
View The Last Wild Home Learning Branch
KS: Lower KS2, R & KS1
Year Group: Year 2, Year 3
