This Floodland KS2 English Planning Pack will help develop and extend your class’s reading and writing skills using Marcus Sedgwick's debut dystopian novel 'Floodland'. Inspired by the events and characters within the book, the children are challenged to write newspaper reports about the situation, analyse characters, writing backstories and speeches for them, as well as developing their reading skills.

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#TheCompleteEnglishPack20lessons

In these Floodland KS2 lessons for Year 6, your class will follow Zoe who became separated from her parents during the confusion of their escape attempt from an England so flooded that Norwich is an island. All alone, she now has to try and find her family. As your class read through the story together, they will have the chance to explore and respond in a variety of ways, developing their reading and writing skills as they do so.

All 20 lessons in this complete Floodland planning pack come with plans, slides and printable resources, providing you with everything you need to teach this topic.

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#AllREADINGCOMPREHENSIONLessonsinPack

This six-lesson scheme of work is perfect for your Year 6 guided reading lessons. Introduce your class to the story of ‘Floodland’ by Marcus Sedgwick. Focus on different reading skills as you and your class enjoy the story of Zoe and her adventures in this fascinating story.

All the lessons in this Floodland KS2 scheme of work come with plans, slides and printable resources, giving you (almost!) all you need to teach your Year 6 class to develop their reading comprehension.

What's included:

Floodland: Reading Comprehension | Analysing
Floodland: Reading Comprehension | Sequencing
Floodland: Reading Comprehension | Vocabulary Choices
Floodland: Reading Comprehension | Justified Opinions
Floodland: Reading Comprehension | Making Links
Floodland: Reading Comprehension | Predicting

#AllNEWSPAPERREPORTSLessonsinPack

How can newspapers create different effects for the reader? Challenge your class to write two newspaper reports which meet specific briefs set by the editor. Your class will have to make reasoned choices with the language and structure of their reports in order to create the desired effects on the reader.

This complete newspaper report KS2 planning pack includes four, fully resourced lessons, themed around Marcus Sedgwick's 'Floodland' novel.

What's included:

Floodland: Newspaper Reports | Research
Floodland: Newspaper Reports | Planning
Floodland: Newspaper Reports | Meeting a brief
Floodland: Newspaper Reports | Changing the Effect

#AllCHARACTERANALYSISLessonsinPack

This set of three Year 6 English lessons contains lots of challenging inference and deduction activities based on the book 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick. Your class will analyse and describe the main characters from the book, supporting their answers with evidence from the text. They will also explore the relationships between each of the characters, and how the author portrays this.

This Floodland KS2 planning pack contains detailed lesson plans, engaging slideshows and a range of differentiated activities.

What's included:

Floodland: Character Analysis | Inference and Deduction
Floodland: Character Analysis | Exploring Relationships
Floodland: Character Analysis | Diary Entries

#AllNARRATIVELessonsinPack

This KS2 story writing scheme, based on Marcus Sedgwick's 'Floodland', will encourage your Year 6 children to explore how authors can use backstories to reveal more about a character. Children will first analyse a given example of a backstory, looking at the language that has been chosen, and what extra information is revealed to the reader. They will then use what they have discovered to generate ideas for, plan and write their own backstory for one of the characters in the book.

This Floodland KS2 scheme of work includes four lessons, each of which have a detailed plan, an informative slideshow, and differentiated worksheets and activity ideas.

What's included:

Floodland: Narrative | Analysing Backstories
Floodland: Narrative | Developing Backstories
Floodland: Narrative | Planning Backstories
Floodland: Narrative | Writing Backstories

#AllSPEECHWRITINGLessonsinPack

Turn your class into ruthless speech writers as they write formal, persuasive speeches to convince the inhabitants of Eels Island to vote on who will be the new leader of the island. This complete speech writing KS2 planning pack helps you Year 6 class investigate the use of formal language features, including the subjunctive mood, as well as recapping on persuasive features of writing.

This three-lesson scheme of work comes with lesson slides, plans and accompanying printable resources, giving you everything you need to teach this engaging set of lessons.

What's included:

Floodland: Speech Writing | Persuasive Speeches
Floodland: Speech Writing | Formal Writing
Floodland: Speech Writing | Writing and Performing

#Lesson1ReadingComprehensionAnalysing

Introduce your class to your new class novel by analysing and inferring information from the front cover. Look carefully at the details in the cover illustration and pick out important information about characters, setting and plot from the blurb. The Year 6 reading activities which are included in this pack challenge your class to use this inferred information to predict what they think the story might be about and what might happen.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets

#Lesson2ReadingComprehensionSequencing

Use this complete Floodland KS2 lesson plan, slides and printable resources to investigate the author’s use of flashbacks as a device to add detail about the story’s plot and characters with your class. The children will be challenged to sequence a set of events from the first two chapters. Help your class see the benefits of using flashbacks and observing the events in chronological order as well as how they appear in the story.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Event cards
Story cards
Differentiated worksheets
Extract card

#Lesson3ReadingComprehensionVocabularyChoices

The engaging lesson input slides that come with this complete Floodland KS2 guided reading plan challenge you Year 6 class to pick out words and vocabulary choices used by the author that they don’t know the meaning of. They are guided through how to use contextual clues and synonyms to find a suitable definition. As a class, discuss the author’s choices of the words and why they might have chosen the words from a set of synonyms before using the accompanying printable resources to have your class independently skimming and scanning the text to find words they may be unsure of.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Word lists
Quote cards

#Lesson4ReadingComprehensionJustifiedOpinions

This complete lesson plan, slides provide you with everything you need to have your Year 6 class exploring and discussing the choice that Zoe has to make as she leaves Eels Island. They are challenged to to use the events and character's actions from the story to help justify and reason their opinions and ideas and what Zoe should decide to do. Then, using the printable resources to support them, encourage Your KS2 class to make written justifications to ideas as they write a persuasive letter to Zoe to help her make a decision.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Character profile cards
Challenge card

#Lesson5ReadingComprehensionMakingLinks

This Floodland KS2 lesson will provide your class with more context on the stories which the characters share with each other throughout the story. In this Year 6 guided reading lesson, they will discuss how stories teach us different life lessons and participate in rich discussions about the stories included in the book using the included lesson input slides before working independently to make links between different stories, including poetry by William Blake.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Story cards
Challenge cards
Differentiated worksheets

#Lesson6ReadingComprehensionPredicting

The final lesson in this Floodland guided reading planning pack asks your class to predict the ending to Zoe’s adventures. Use the included teaching input slides to guide your Year 6 class's discussion and explore the characters’ motives. The accompanying printable resources that come with this complete KS2 lesson plan encourage the children to determine whether or not a prediction is likely to happen based on a character’s previous attitude, behaviour and motivations. The resources aim to promote discussion among groups about the likelihood of the predictions they make, concluding Zoe's adventures.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Prediction cards

#Lesson7NewspaperReportsResearch

Challenge your class to think about what information they as reporters will need to know in order to report on the rising sea levels in the story of ‘Floodland’. Using researching and questioning skills, the children will need to organise and evaluate the importance of the background information they gather for their report.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Information sheet
Question cards

#Lesson8NewspaperReportsPlanning

In this planning lesson of the series, the children are challenged to think about the appropriate features of a newspaper report, as well as the structural features that lend themselves to this genre. They then plan these into a report on rising sea levels in Norwich, thinking about the most effective way that they can use each feature.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Model text
Planning pieces
Challenge card
Feature cards

#Lesson9NewspaperReportsMeetingaBrief

This writing a newspaper report KS2 lesson plan and accompanying printable resources comes with all you need to guide your Year 6 class as they write an article to meet a brief from an editor. They must think carefully about the information, structure and word choices they should include to make sure that the editor will be happy with their article.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Teacher notes
Newspaper brief
Information sheet
Writing frame
Editing checklist

#Lesson10NewspaperReportsChangingtheEffect

Have your class ever noticed how the same story can be told different ways? After writing a news article in the previous lesson, they are challenged to write the story again for a different editor. This time, they want something slightly different. Using the included teaching input slides, discuss the different choices they are going to have to make to meet the new brief and how the articles will be different.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Challenge cards

#Lesson11CharacterAnalysisInferenceandDeduction

In this lesson, your Year 6 children will develop their skills of inference and deduction by exploring the characters of 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick in more detail. As a class, they will analyse the character of Zoe based on evidence from the text, before moving on to creating character descriptions of Dooby, Munchkin and William. In the alternative activity provided, children are given quotations from the text and challenged to decide who said them, or who they are describing, noting the reasons for their decision.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Text Extracts
Description Cards
Who is This? Cards

#Lesson12CharacterAnalysisExploringRelationships

Children will first discuss which of the characters from Marcus Sedgwick's 'Floodland' they most and least sympathise and empathise with, before moving on to exploring how the characters think and feel about each other, based on the events in the text. In their independent activities, children need to use their skills of inference and deduction to further explore the relationships between the characters, through discussion and role-play.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Character Cards
Character Conversation Cards
Discussion Around the Fire Challenge Card

#Lesson13CharacterAnalysisDiaryEntries

Your Year 6 children will first explore and discuss the features of a diary entry, before analysing a given example together. They are then challenged to apply what they have learnt about the characters in Marcus Sedgwick's 'Floodland' in order to write a diary entry from one of their points of view, detailing a specific event that happened in the text, and how their character feels about it.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Character & Scenario Cards
Checklist Cards
Diary Template
Zoe's Arrival Challenge Card

#Lesson14NarrativeAnalysingBackstories

In this first KS2 story writing lesson based on 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick, children will discuss the purpose and effect of using backstories within a narrative. As a class, they will use the main character of Zoe as an example. In their independent activities, children analyse the backstory of another character, and think about the effect this new information has on their thoughts and opinions of them.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Differentiated worksheets
Sarah's 'Before' Sheet
Question Cards
Sarah's 'Then' Quotes Sheet

#Lesson15NarrativeDevelopingBackstories

In this Year 6 English lesson, children begin by discussing what they know, or can infer, about a character based on extracts from 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick. They will then start to think about what they would like to know about this character's life before they came to Eels Island. In their independent activities, children generate questions and discuss answers to develop ideas for their character's backstory.

What's included:

Lesson Plan
Slides
Text Extracts about Munchkin
Text Extracts about Dooby
Question & Answer Sheet A/B/C
Challenge Cards
Extract A & B
Ideas for Dooby's 'Before' Sheet

#Lesson16NarrativePlanningBackstories

Before planning their backstory for their chosen character from 'Floodland', children will explore the features of a story, looking at and discussing the five main sections: opening, build-up, dilemma, resolution and ending. They then apply what they have learnt to create their own plans.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Prompt Sheet
Planning Sheet
Challenge Card

#Lesson17NarrativeWritingBackstories

In this Floodland KS2 English lesson, children will first discuss how to keep their audience engaged and develop the reader's understanding of the character through careful choice of vocabulary, use of different cohesive devices, and emotive language. They are then challenged to apply what they have learnt when writing their chosen character's backstory.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Before' Writing Template
Differentiated Challenge Cards

#Lesson18SpeechWritingPersuasiveSpeeches

Study the speech that Severn Suzuki made at the 1992 UN Earth Summit to find effective features of a persuasive speech. Look at the different linguistic and structural features of a speech and discuss how these features work together to create an effective piece of writing.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Transcript sheet
Challenge card
Worksheet
Speech sheet

#Lesson19SpeechWritingFormalWriting

Use this subjunctive mood KS2 lesson plan uses the context of persuasive speech wirting to teach your class about using the subjunctive mood in their writing. The included teaching input slides offer plenty of examples for the children to discuss and work from before they have a go at writing in the subjunctive mood themselves. The provided resources offer a model text for the children to identify examples of the subjunctive mood and base their own writing on. They will plan their persuasive speech using the ideas and features they have discussed in the previous two lessons.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Transcript sheet
Challenge card
Worksheet
Speech sheet

#Lesson20SpeechWritingWritingandPerforming

Use this writing a persuasive speech KS2 lesson plan and accompanying resources to challenge your Year 6 class to use all their learning from the previous lessons to write a speech to convince the inhabitants of Eels Island from the Floodland novel to elect a new leader.

What's included:

Lesson plan
Slides
Activity ideas
Teacher notes
Writing frames
Word bank
Checklist

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Curriculum Objectives covered

Not all of the National Curriculum objectives listed below apply to all the schemes in this Floodland English Pack. View the overview for the more details.

Reading - Comprehension Objectives:

continuing to read and discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbooks
reading books that are structured in different ways and reading for a range of purposes
increasing their familiarity with a wide range of books, including myths, legends and traditional stories, modern fiction, fiction from our literary heritage, and books from other cultures and traditions
identifying and discussing themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing
making comparisons within and across books
asking questions to improve their understanding
drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
predicting what might happen from details stated and implied
discuss and evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader
participate in discussions about books that are read to them and those they can read for themselves, building on their own and others’ ideas and challenging views courteously
provide reasoned justifications for their views.

Writing - Transcription SPELLING Objectives:

use dictionaries to check the spelling and meaning of words
use the first three or four letters of a word to check spelling, meaning or both of these in a dictionary
use a thesaurus

Writing - Composition Objectives:

identifying the audience for and purpose of the writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own
noting and developing initial ideas, drawing on reading and research where necessary
in writing narratives, considering how authors have developed characters and settings in what pupils have read, listened to or seen performed
selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary, understanding how such choices can change and enhance meaning
in narratives, describing settings, characters and atmosphere and integrating dialogue to convey character and advance the action
using a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs
using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text and to guide the reader [for example, headings, bullet points, underlining]
assessing the effectiveness of their own and others’ writing
proposing changes to vocabulary, grammar and punctuation to enhance effects and clarify meaning
proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors

Writing - Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Objectives:

recognising vocabulary and structures that are appropriate for formal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms
using modal verbs or adverbs to indicate degrees of possibility

English Appendix Objectives:

The difference between vocabulary typical of informal speech and vocabulary appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, find out – discover; ask for – request; go in – enter]
The difference between structures typical of informal speech and structures appropriate for formal speech and writing [for example, the use of question tags: He’s your friend, isn’t he?, or the use of subjunctive forms such as If I were or Were they to come in some very formal writing and speech]
Linking ideas across paragraphs using a wider range of cohesive devices: repetition of a word or phrase, grammatical connections [for example, the use of adverbials such as on the other hand, in contrast, or as a consequence], and ellipsis
Layout devices [for example, headings, sub-headings, columns, bullets, or tables, to structure text]