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Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
SCHEME OF WORK: TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 4)

LESSON: 62 (Writing 12) MAIN SKILL FOCUS: Writing THEME: World of Knowledge
WEEK: TOPIC: Year in, year out CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Creativity & LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Prepositions

Innovation; ICT

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES

Main Skill Main Skill Pre-lesson Get Smart plus 3 Differentiate learning
Writing 4.2 Writing 4.2.4 1. Choose an appropriate pre-lesson activity from the list in the introduction Student’s Book, p.41 according to the needs of
Communicate Describe people that suits your pupils’ needs and interests and that will review language your pupils and class. Please
basic information and objects using and prepare pupils for the lesson by reviewing the names of the six Teacher’s Book, p.68–9 see the seven differentiation
intelligibly for a suitable words and countries. Computers strategies listed in the
range of purposes phrases Lesson delivery introduction. Please also
in print and digital Magazines and/or a consider the following:
media Note: This lesson is based on the project on Student’s Book, p.41. printer Set a specific number of
pictures or information to find
Complementary 2. Divide pupils into five or six groups, depending on the size of your class. on the country so that there
Complementary Skill There should be 4–6 pupils in each group. is enough time in the lesson.
Skill Speaking 2.2.2 3. Tell pupils they will find out about a country and make a collage. You
Speaking 2.2 Ask for attention or can show pupils the example of Student’s Book, p.41 Activity 2 so they At the writing stage, you
Use appropriate help from a teacher know what to do. could either have a more
communication or classmate by proficient pupil in the group
strategies using suitable 4. Assign roles to pupils in the group or have pupils decide between be the main writer (and
questions themselves. At least one: others contribute) or,
preferably, you could ask
 researcher (to look on the computer for information about the each pupil to write one/two
country*) sentences each, so they
 designer (to decide which pictures go where) share the writing.
 cutter & sticker (to cut out pictures and stick them to the collage)
 writer (to annotate the picture).
5. Have groups choose a country. First they should decide what
information to find out about. Allow all pupils to work briefly on the
computer to start finding out basic information about the country before
the ‘researcher’ takes over and the others do their tasks.
*Select, in advance, websites that are safe and are simple to follow, that
pupils can use to find information e.g. www.kiddle.co or
www.kidzsearch.com

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