KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 6
Literary Theme: Evolution & Inheritance
Author(s): Hannah Gold
This is a Vocabulary Vine for The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
A Vocabulary Vine is designed to be a sister resource to a Writing Root and Spelling Seed. It sits within our wider Teach Through a Text approach by explicitly identifying vocabulary from the book and providing additional opportunities for paired, small group and whole class experimentation with this vocabulary in context. Vocabulary Vines further complement spelling development too through exploration of the morphology (word structure) and etymology (origins) of words. They also provide oracy opportunities through a focus on talk tasks and on oral sentence construction. They are designed for short burst oral and vocabulary development.
Forest of Words for The Last Bear
Some Vocabulary Vines for longer texts include an additional resource called a Forest of Words. This resource offers extra vocabulary drawn from throughout the text, which has been identified as having strong potential for further language exploration. The words or phrases in the Forest of Words are grouped by chapter. Words that are also featured in the main Vocabulary Vine resource are highlighted within the Forest of Words for easy reference.
A Spelling Seed is available for The Last Bear.
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.
Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.
There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.
amateur, correspond, familiar, lightning, necessary, occupy, temperature
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
Words ending in –ent, –ence/–ency
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