Book status: The book for this planning sequence is currently reprinting or out of print and therefore not in stock at most booksellers. If you do not already own the book, we would recommend this planning sequence as an alternative:
Alternative sequence£5.00 (inc. VAT)
KS: Lower KS2
Year Group: Year 4
Literary Theme: Exploration & Discovery
Author(s): Martin Jenkins
Character description, informative posters, persuasive leaflets, log book entries (recount)
Narrative based on own imagined land
15 sessions, 3 weeks
This is a three-week Writing Root for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver by Martin Jenkins and Chris Riddell. Children will have read Gulliver’s Travels and been immersed in the various settings that he explores. This will be used as a basis for a variety of persuasive short writing opportunities, such as a poster and a leaflet before children move on to creating a logbook. The final longer written outcome will be the children creating their own imaginary lands to use as settings for a new adventure story where they are the explorer.
A prize-winning edition of one of the best-loved stories in English literature.This magnificent edition of Jonathan Swift's classic adventure story contains all four of Gulliver's extraordinary voyages. Martin Jenkins has skilfully adapted the original novel, remaining true to its tone and humour while making it accessible to younger readers. Chris Riddell brings life to Swift's searing imagination in wonderful panoramic detail. Winner of the 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal and the 2005 National Literacy Association Wow! Award, and shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards, 2005.
Classic fiction, Gulliver's Travels, adventure, travel
Date written: April 2016
A Spelling Seed is available for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver.
Overview:
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Jonathan Swift's Gulliver by Martin Jenkins. 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.
arrive, caught, imagine, island, medicine, accident(ally), calendar, accident(ally), calendar, earth, extreme, famous, sentence, mention
More Prefixes: inter–, auto–, sub–
The suffix -ous
View Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Spelling Seed
KS: Lower KS2, R & KS1, Upper KS2
Year Group: Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
