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A Vocabulary Vine for FArTHER

 

KS: Lower KS2

Year Group: Year 4

Literary Theme: Invention & Innovation

Author(s): Grahame Baker-Smith

This is a Vocabulary Vine for FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith

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 Writing Root is available for FArTHER.

Writing Root Overview:

Outcomes:

Retellings, recounts (postcards), setting descriptions, diary entries, instructions

Main Outcome:

Sequel story

Length:

15 sessions, 3 weeks

Overview and Outcomes:

This three-week Writing Root begins by introducing the concept of dreams and how important they are in our lives. It continues by exploring the text through a range of activities that include explicit grammar teaching, opportunities for shorter written outcomes and book talk. Children create a story-map of the key events from the book to write a sequel and create a set of instruction to describe how their own flying machine works. Children finish by writing a longer story about an adventure in a sequel to the text.

Synopsis of Text:

A young boy, bewitched by his fathers unrelenting passion to fly; a desperate craving that absorbs his every waking minute, finds himself entranced by the dream. When his father goes to war and does not return it seems the spell is broken. . Much later, the boy, now a young man finds himself drawn once more to his fathers drawings and failed experiments. Finally able to make his fathers dream a reality he flies. Will his own son be visited by this unrelenting passion?

Text Rationale:

This stunning picture book by significant author Grahame Baker-Smith won the Kate Greenaway medal in 2011 and explores the relationship between a father a son.  Close inspection of the text and illustrations provides subtle links to World War One and ancient Greece, in particular the story of Icarus, as well as strong links to the DT curriculum.  There are many opportunities to discuss family relationships, memories and following your dreams.  

Links and themes:

Ancient Greece, Icarus, Greek myths, Da Vinci, flight, World War 1, World War One, The Great War, dreams, aspirations, invention, family

Date written: September 2013            Updated: September 2022

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A Spelling Seed is available for FArTHER.

Spelling Seed Overview:

Overview:

This is a three-session spelling seed for the book FArTHER by Grahame Baker Smith.  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.

Coverage:

Word List Words

complete, disappear, experiment, increase, learn, often, promise, regular, thought, different

Spelling Rules and Patterns

Endings which sounds like /ʃən/, spelt –tion, –sion, –ssion, –cian

More prefixes dis-, mis-, in-

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