Year 6 - Harry Potter themed SATs revision plans - Unit 1 - Story openers & letters

Five revision sessions using chapters 1-4 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

Look at how JK Rowling draws in readers with her opening chapters. Revise word classes, syntax, sentence punctuation. Study features of letter writing; create own ‘Howlers’!

Includes:

• teaching plan for 5 sessions
• teaching resources and answers
• SPAG revision presentation
• 5-minute SPAG revision presentation

Session 1 - Looking at the opening chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, children discuss how many exciting ideas and invented words are introduced in this new world. They revise word classes, and discuss, classify and define words.

Session 2 - Children consider story openings and techniques for drawing in the reader. They evaluate a text, form opinions and justify these with evidence from the text, drawing on their own notes.

Session 3 - Children revise sentence punctuation and identify aspects of sentence structure, including verb, subject, object. They identify complete sentences and complete relevant grammatical exercises.

Session 4 - Discuss different ways writers can introduce a character (description, action, dialogue) and consider the introduction of Hagrid. Children draw inferences from the text and retrieve information to provide evidence for opinions.

Session 5 - Review all the letters so far in Harry Potter, and discuss features and types. Children plan and write a letter in role, applying letter conventions in their own work. They then perform their own howlers.

SPAG Revision
Word classes, sentence types and their punctuation and syntax of a sentence (subject, verb, object, parts of a clause) are all covered in this introductory presentation. It also encompasses features of letters.

This unit is part of a larger block of Harry Potter themed revision plans that cover all of the required revision for the Year 6 English SATs, including the SPAG.