Journey to the River Sea Week 1
Help yourself to Week 1 of our fully resourced English planning based on ‘Journey to the River Sea’.
This free download gives you a genuine taste of how the full unit works in the classroom complete with ready-to-teach lessons, engaging activities and bespoke teaching videos.
It’s our way of letting you try before you buy, so you can see how easily everything fits together and how quickly your pupils become immersed in the story.
Perfect if you’d like to explore the structure, teaching style and pupil outcomes before committing to the full 10-week unit.
About the full ten weeks of planning
Back by popular demand, our original ‘Journey to the River Sea’ fully resourced English planning has been completely revamped with brand-new lessons, fresh activities, updated images and lots of new ideas to inspire your class.
This is a 10-week, fully resourced English unit with 50 ready-to-teach lessons for Year 5 and 6 (ages 9–11), designed to save you time while keeping pupils deeply engaged in the story. As experienced teachers ourselves, we have included everything you’ll need: bespoke teaching videos, WAGOLL texts, oracy opportunities and adapted activities.
Grammar is taught naturally through the text, helping children really understand how language works in real writing. Along the way, they’ll explore:
Word classes
Relative clauses
Parenthesis
Cohesive devices
Subject–verb agreement
Indirect speech
Emotive language
Rather than completing disconnected grammar exercises, pupils apply everything they learn straight into their writing.
Across the unit, children produce four meaningful extended pieces:
A non-chronological report
A biography
Poetry
A persuasive text
Each outcome builds confidence, creativity and technical accuracy, giving pupils plenty of opportunities to develop their writer’s voice while mastering key Year 5 and 6 objectives.
So, grab your pith helmet, lace up your walking boots and unfold your maps…
We’re heading deep into the Amazon. 🌿
Download the ten weeks of fully resourced English planning here
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