KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 5
Literary Theme: Power vs. Principles
Author(s): William Shakespeare
This is a four-session spelling seed for the book The Tempest by William Shakespeare. 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.
correspond, interfere, mischievous, sincere(ly), signature, twelfth, yacht
Endings which sound like /ʃəl/ (–cial or –tial)
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word)
A Planning Sequence is available for The Tempest.
Setting description, character descriptions /comparisons, diary entry, dialogue
Playscript
17+ sessions, 3+ weeks
This is a 3+ week planning sequence using an abridged version of The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Although you may wish to expose children to a variety of different retellings of the story, it is also important that children have an opportunity to explore a playscript version of the text, and that that have an opportunity to see it being performed, either on film or, ideally, on stage. During this sequence, children have the chance to explore the themes, ideas and characters in the play, as well as writing opportunities, such as character descriptions and comparisons, scene/setting descriptions and diary entries. They also explore the conventions of writing playscripts, including (characterisation through) dialogue, stage directions and how to convey action, as well as some Shakespearean conventions, such as the iambic pentameter. The sequence culminates in children having the opportunity to write their own ‘tempest’ story to be read or performed.
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