Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
In this video weíre going to look at the planning in Wordsmith. To find this, click
on Planning, and select Wordsmith. This brings you to an easy to navigate menu
of all the units available in your subscription. As Wordsmith grows you will find more tabs
here showing the units for the Spring and Summer term too. To drill down to a particular
unit, click on the link in the unit column. Here you have the unit plan. On this page
you see a brief overview of the unit and the stimulus materials at its core, plus a recommended
route through. There are more sessions for each unit than you need to give you choice
and allow you to customise the unit plan to the needs of your class. However if you want
to just get going our recommended routes through have been carefully balanced against each
other to ensure an even weighting of activities across the unit and across the year.
From this page you can download the full Lesson Bank for the unit, which gives you more detail
around what to cover in each session. The Recommended Route link gives you the same
lesson plans but with the extra sessions stripped out.
The plans are deliberately in Word so that you can edit them. Each plan follows approximately
the same structure. Page 1 gives you an overview of the unit and some recommended grammar activities
to cover alongside it ñ hyperlinked so you can go directly to them.
Scroll down and youíll see guidance notes for each session relating to the unit, with
headline detail about the main focus, a suggested teaching sequence for whole class work, and
a description of the follow up activities. The main focus column here shows you which
particular area each session covers. Wordsmith has been carefully crafted to ensure that
it covers all of the objectives of the new Primary curriculum for English. The teaching
summary and activity descriptions give you a great structure on which to hang your lessons,
plus a huge bank of ready made activities, and can easily be tailored to the needs of
your class. All of the resources you need for teaching
the unit are hyperlinked so that you can launch them straight out of the plan.
Here we have an Interactive Teaching Page for the whiteboardÖ
And an eBookÖ We will look at ITPs and eBooks in separate
videos, so for now, letís go back to the plan.
When it comes to activities we have suggested different approaches (see here ëBabble Gabbleí
and ëTalk Partnersí) so there is built-in variety for the children. You can find a glossary
explaining the activity types on The Wordsmith World member site.
You can also access the lesson plans via the resources search functionality. Click on resources
and select Wordsmith. Once on the Wordsmith Resource homepage you
can filter the results to find what youíre looking for. Filter by Year, Strand, Focus
Area or Type of resource. Here weíve filtered by Year and by Focus
Area to find the fiction units for Year 1. Click on the main link to open up the plan
in Word. And thatís the plans! We hope youíll enjoy using them with your class.