KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 5
Literary Theme: Ambition & Aspiration, Ambition & Desire, Fighting for Freedom, Inspiration & Activism, Power vs. Principles
Author(s): Margot Lee Shetterly
This is a Vocabulary Vine for Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
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.
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 Hidden Figures.
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. 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.
achieve, controversy, prejudice, privilege, programme, relevant
Endings which sound like /ʃəl/
Words ending in –ant, -ance/–ancy
View Hidden Figures Spelling SeedA Home Learning Branch is available for Hidden Figures.
This is a Home Learning Branch for Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race. These branches are designed to support home learners to access literature-based learning using a selection of books we love from Writing Roots. They include purposeful writing suggestions, links to the wider curriculum so that texts can be used across other subjects, key questions as well as spelling or phonics investigations.
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