FREE Mini-scheme: Floodland: Speech Writing

These lessons are based on the novel 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick. Your class will need to have read the book before you teach these lessons.

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 your Year 6 class investigate the use of formal language features, including the subjunctive mood, as well as recapping on persuasive features of writing.

This free, 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.

Persuasive Speeches

As a class, children will study the speech that Severn Suzuki made at the 1992 UN Earth Summit to find effective features of a persuasive speech. They will 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.

This lesson pack contains a comprehensive lesson plan, a set of PDF slides for delivering the main teaching input, a range of differentiated activity suggestions, and printable resources to support your class during independent work.

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Formal 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.

This lesson pack offers a thorough planning guide, PDF slides to support your teaching input, a variety of differentiated activity ideas, and printable materials to help your class during independent tasks.

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Writing and Performing

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.

This lesson pack includes a detailed plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources to support your class in their independent work.

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