Weekly Plan 3
Subject: Literacy Hour
Focus : Poetry
Year: Group 5&6

Poem: 'Space Dog Remembers' by John Agard

• Focus on section that refers to selecting people to work in space station which should lead on to discussion of what it might be like to work on a space station.
  

Whole Class Shared Reading/Writing:-

• Guardians Web Site - staffing space station section
• Discuss Space Dog Remembers poem by John Agard
• Focus of structure of poems
• Whole group create version of Space Dog poem i.e. Space Rat/Space Cat/Space?

Whole Class-vocab etc:-

• Capital letters
• Use of paragraphs
• Expressive punctuation
• Key words
• Active and passive verbs
• Group work:-
• Select from-
• Idioms- over the moon
• Origins of words
• Nelson English Scheme Skills book 4 chapter 7 & book 5 chapter 7 work related to space.