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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 1: Beware the dragon!

Using a range of language detective skills to identify key facts about Komodo dragons.

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Learning objective

To investigate a text for clues to understand new words.

Success criteria

I can recognise a text type from its

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National curriculum

Languages

Pupils should be taught to:

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Before starting this unit, you may want to check that children can recall: The names of some common animals (see French, Year 3, A circle of life in French). The names of colours (see French, Year 3, French adjectives of colour, size and shape). That adjectives can change depending on what they are describing (see…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Could write in English on sticky notes; could write fewer sticky notes; could use the Knowledge organiser (see: Knowledge organiser: French, Y5 French monster pets) to support with vocabulary.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should write in French on sticky notes wherever possible; could research further vocabulary, either from the text or using a French-English dictionary; could develop their fact file into a learning poster for display.

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