Floodland English Pack - Lesson 18: Speech Writing | Persuasive Speeches

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.