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
KS: Upper KS2
Year Group: Year 5
Literary Theme: Lessons From History
Author(s): Tomi Ungerer
This is a two-session spelling seed for the book Otto: Autobiography of a Teddy-bear by Tomi Ungerer. 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.
correspond, marvellous, occupy, sincere(ly), signature, soldier
Use of the hyphen
A Writing Root is available for Otto: Autobiography of a Teddy-bear.
Character description, missing scenes, newspaper article
Own version historical narrative
10 sessions, 2 weeks
This is a two-week Writing Root for Otto by Tomi Ungerer, in which children begin by making predictions about the story theme and events by exploring images and props from the story, such as a bear and a typewriter. Children eventually plan and write their own version of a historical story, using devices similar to those in the text. This works well as part of a curriculum topic about World War 2 (WW2) as children can use their knowledge about events to weave into setting descriptions.
A powerful and beautiful book told first-hand by Otto, a German-born teddy bear who is separated from his Jewish owner, lives through World War II, and is reunited with his original owner 50 years later.
Links:
Occupation, World War Two, WW2, Judaism, Holocaust
Date written: October 2016
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