Literacy outcome

Year 5: A persuasive paper intended for presentation to a judge aimed at convincing the court to order the historical crime case of the highwayman to be reopened.

Year 6: A brief persuasive presentation, based on the children's written paper, to re-enforce the main points of the case to the judge.

Children will learn how to:

1. Speaking

• Present a spoken argument, sequencing points logically, defending views with evidence and making use of persuasive language

2. Listening and responding

• Identify some different aspects of speech that vary between formal and informal occasions
• Analyse the use of persuasive language

3. Group discussion and interaction

• Understand different ways to take the lead and support others in groups
• Understand the process of decision making

4. Drama

• Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues

7. Understanding and interpreting texts

• Make notes on and use evidence from across a text to explain events or ideas
• Infer writers' perspectives from what is written and from what is implied
• Compare different types of narrative and information texts and identify how they are structured
• Explore how writers use language for comic and dramatic effects

8. Engaging with and responding to texts

• Compare how a common theme is presented in poetry, prose and other media

9. Creating and shaping texts

• Reflect independently and critically on their own writing and edit and improve it  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)
• Create multi-layered texts, including use of hyperlinks, linked with web pages

10. Text structure and organisation

• Experiment with the order of sections and paragraphs to achieve different effects  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)
• Change the order of material within a paragraph, moving the topic sentence

11. Sentence structure and punctuation

• Adapt sentence construction to different text types, purposes and readers  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)
• Punctuate sentences accurately, including use of speech marks and apostrophes  (This link will take you to the relevant Steps in learning for this objective. Use the 'back' button on your browser to return to the objectives.)