KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 5
Literary Theme: Power vs. Principles
Author(s): Gillian Cross
This is a Vocabulary Vine for The Odyssey by Gillian Cross
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.
A Spelling Seed is available for The Odyssey.
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book The Odyssey by Gillian Cross. 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.
ancient, competition, lightning, mischievous, relevant, physical
Use of the hyphen
Words ending in –ant, - ance/–ancy
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