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... Complaint Letter ... Washing Machine and Bicycle Lesson Plan

This is a lesson plan designed for a Year 6 SEN group
This one week lesson plan uses the first two days to investigate past tense.
1
Learning Intention:
SENTENCE:
To identify past tense words.
Relate to present tense equivalent

SENTENCE CONTD: (This is a tenses lesson)
Examine different forms of past tense
Instruction and differentiated activities:
To tabulate present and past tense words
Role play different scenes - including a crime scene of someone breaking into the classroom (which will elaborated tomorrow)
Record present tense words on the board - these will be used for independent activities

Differentiation
LA to tabulate past and present tense words - using Tenses display for support
MA and HA to tabulate past and present tense words - using two forms of the past tense
Resources:
*Tenses display
ICT Opportunities:
*Whiteboard
2
Learning Intention:
SENTENCE:
Tenses revision

SENTENCE CONTD:
(This is a tenses lesson)


Instruction and differentiated activities:
To write a passage in the past tense
For this lesson, Used a sequence of pictures of burglars (see 'Sentence Level Work' Tenses).
One child acted out breaking into the classroom to steal something - as the children called out what he was doing, I labelled the verbs on the pictures (projected onto a whiteboard).

Differentiation LA children used a tenses sentence builder
MA wrote sentences from the labelled pictures
HA wrote their own alibi explaining what they did one day of the murder
Resources:
*Interactive whiteboard
*Scenes of a robber
*Sentence Tenses Builder for LA
*Tenses display
ICT Opportunities:
*
3
Learning Intention:
SENTENCE:
1. Punctuation and sentence structure
2. Tenses revision - identify that we will be writing complaint letters using the past tense (i.e what we FOUND faulty - although I know these things are still faulty - as this is an SEN group, we find this method works well)

TEXT:
Shared writing to collectively answer generic questions about a complaint letter. Children to see that these questions identify features common to all complaint letters
Instruction and differentiated activities:
LI: To answer questions about a complaint letter
Shared writing and discussion of the generic questions

Differentiation
LA: Differentiated generic questions given to answer
MA / HA: Write past tense sentences about a broken bicycle
Resources:
*Complaint letter - washing machine LA
*Complaint letter Washing Machine MA and HA
*Generic quetions
*SEN washing machine sentence builder - no plurals
*SEN washing machine sentence builder - with plurals
*Clothing Keyword list (available on the EAL page)
ICT Opportunities:
*
4
Learning Intention:
SENTENCE:
Past tense

TEXT:
To model writing. Use pictures of a bicycle. Identify parts that may be broken and turn these into PAST TENSE sentences
Instruction and differentiated activities:
LI: To describe broken apparatus in sentences - using past tense
Use shared writing to model writing sentence about bicycle in past tense

Differentiation
*LA to write sentences about a bicycle
*MA /HA to write past tense sentences about a broken bicycle
Resources:
*Bicycle picture
ICT Opportunities:
*Whiteboard for projecting bicycle picture
5
Learning Intention:
SENTENCE:
use information collected during the week to identify inconsistencies in children's writing relating to tenses and sentence structure.
Present these on the board, as target points for children during their writing

TEXT:
Model writing.
Model writing of a complaint letter – identify features of a complaint letter
Instruction and differentiated activities:
LI: To write a complaint letter
Model writing. Identify the main parts of a complaint letter. Writing frame includes these parts.

Differentiation
LA: To write sentences that describe a picture
MA: Write a complaint letter using writing frame
HA: Write a complaint letter using HA writing frame
Resources:
*Complaint writing frame LA
*Complaint writing frame
*Bicycle picture
*Features of a letter
ICT Opportunities:
*

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