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Our Year 6 units are shown below split into text, sentence, word and writing strands. Each unit is focused on a text indicated in the text column. The bullet points are aimed to give you a quick impression of the areas covered. Each unit contains between 15 and 18 lessons of an hour in duration. For greater detail click on the ‘Outcomes and NC Objectives’ buttons when available.

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Term 1

Theme Text Sentence Word Writing
Mars – The Red Planet A non-chronological report

  • Oracy – Mars documentary
  • Reading – Comprehension
  • Non-chronological
  • Parenthesis
  • Revision of passive voice
  • Revision of compound and complex sentences
  • Suffixes
  • Expanded nouns
  • Choice of vocabulary
  • Alien life forms
  • Supported planet non-chronological report
  • Independent planet non-chronological report
  • Oracy – Planet documentary


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Term 1

Theme Text Sentence Word Writing
The Rescue A descriptive narrative

  • Oracy – Drama
  • Reading – Comprehension
  • Paragraphs
  • Simple, compound and complex sentences
  • Use of the comma to seperate clause
  • Co-ordinate and subordinate conjunctions
  • Movement of the subordinate clause
  • Suffixes
  • Description of sense
  • Descriptive poem
  • Supported descriptive narrative
  • Independent descriptive narrative
  • Oracy – Rescue drama