Age 10-11 The Red Planet: Round Robin Overview

Guided Reading 1 – Extracts from the ‘The War of the Worlds’ written by H. G. Wells

Assessed Reading – A ‘Space’ poem written by an anonymous poet

Guided Reading 2 – An amended extract from the ‘Pioneers! O Pioneers!’ poem written by Walt Whitman

Choice of spelling strategy

Revision of the suffixes –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian

The suffixes -cial or -tial

Continuous cursive top “e” letter joins – ere

Continuous cursive top letter joins – bl

Science fiction vocabulary

Effective description