SUGGESTED LESSON PLANS TO LINK IN WITH SPACE STATION:-
Weekly Plan 3
Subject: Literacy Hour
Focus : Poetry
Year: Group 5&6
Poem: 'Space Dog Remembers' by John Agard
- Focus on section that refers to selecting people to work in space station which should lead on to discussion of what it might be like to work on a space station.
Whole Class Shared Reading/Writing:-
- Guardians Web Site - staffing space station section
- Discuss Space Dog Remembers poem by John Agard
- Focus of structure of poems
- Whole group create version of Space Dog poem i.e. Space Rat/Space Cat/Space?
Whole Class-vocab etc:-
- Capital letters
- Use of paragraphs
- Expressive punctuation
- Key words
- Active and passive verbs
- Group work:-
- Select from-
- Idioms- over the moon
- Origins of words
- Nelson English Scheme Skills book 4 chapter 7 & book 5 chapter 7 work related to space.
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