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Week
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Word Level
Phonics, Spelling & Vocabulary
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Sentence Level
Grammar & Punctuation
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Text Level
Comprehension & Composition
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Texts
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Continuous Work
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Continuous Work
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Continuous Work
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Spelling Strategies - Look, Say, Cover, Write,
Check
Root Words
Collecting New Words
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Predicting meaning of new words
Sentence construction
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Comprehension of text
Identification of text type
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Myths, Legends and Fables
Non-fiction reports
Speech/Playscripts
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1
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Latin roots:
mater, pater noster, servi, infans, feles, per
diem
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Identifying the definition of a noun, examining
types of noun.
Exploring the use of gender in the Latin Language.
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Designing simple patterns with words - acrostic
poems.
Recording information on a time line.
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Minimus
The Birthday Party
Perseus and Medusa
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2
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Latin roots:
porcus, equus, maximus, minimus
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Investigating the use of adjectives to enhance
the object.
Discuss gender/adjectival agreement.
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Investigate the style of traditional story language
- analysing stories with a moral.
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Minimus
Dinner for the Governor
Daedalus and Icarus
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3
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Latin roots:
scribit, spectat, laborant
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Using verbs - identifying the subject via the
verb ending.
Examining the gender from the verb.
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Writing a first person account - the diary of
a slave in the Roman Empire. Reading comprehension based on the
"slave" text.
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Minimus
Who are the Slaves?
Pandora's Box
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4
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Latin roots:
Dormio, iratus
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Revision of nouns, verbs and adjectives, putting
skills into practice
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Writing a story about a fable, focusing on jealousy/vanity.
Picture story using speech bubbles.
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Minimus
Rufus! Don't Touch!
Echo and Narcissus
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5
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Latin roots:
diligenter, ferociter, pugno, celeriter
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Using adverbs to make a verb more interesting.
Adverbs ending in -ter (Latin) -ly (English)
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Summarising the content of a passage and the
main point it is making.
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Minimus
The Britons
Romans are Best
A Traveller's Tale
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6
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Latin roots:
habitat, acutus, obesus, fractus
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Consolidating nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Revising sentence structure.
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Writing and newspaper style report based on
Barates' voyage across the Roman Empire.
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Minimus
Travel
Cadidus Meets His Friend
Actaeon and Diana
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7
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Latin roots:
milites, audite, portate, facite
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Recognising verbs that give a command or an
order.
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Writing poems based on imagined experiences.
Poems describing the Greeks' feelings on the last
day of Troy
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Minimus
The Centurion
Off Duty
Odysseus's Clever Plan
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8
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Latin roots:
Tepidarium, frigidarium, apodyterium, caldarium
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Revision of verbs and adverbs, making actions
more interesting.
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Writing an extended story using paragraphs, based
on the Roman Baths.
"Lepidina Loses Her Necklace"
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Minimus
The Public Baths
A Visit to the Doctor
Odysseus and the Cyclops
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9
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Latin roots:
Sub, circum, pro
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Using prepositions to describe and locate the
position of an object.
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Use the information about soldiers to write
a first person account in the form of a letter.
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Minimus
Who Does What?
Procrustes and his Terrible Bed
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10
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Latin roots:
pretiosus, donum, anima, verba
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Inserting conjunctions to extend two short sentences
into one longer sentence.
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Comparing various fables to identify the techniques
used.
Acting out fables created by the children.
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Minimus
The Romantic Ring
Midas and the Golden Touch
The Prodigal Son etc
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11
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Latin roots:
accipit, epistula, mortua
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Changing the ending of a word for it to agree
with subject or verb.
Checking the structure of a sentence.
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Locating information within a text and making
a simple record of this information.
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Minimus
Goodbye to Regina
Pyramus and Thisbe
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12
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Latin roots:
narrat, cantat, recitat
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Revision of all the skills and techniques learnt
during the course.
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Making clear notes in order to write a non-chronological
report about the progress of medicine.
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Minimus
The Gods
The Amazing Body
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