Upper Key Stage 2

A selection of texts that work well for whole class novel studies in upper key stage 2. There are suggestions for well linked and purposeful teaching outcomes and ideas for writing to support you when creating long term planning.

  • Narrative writing

  • Character exploration

  • Soundscape and setting work

  • Building suspense

  • Setting exploration

  • Non-linear narrative

  • Character exploration

  • Narrative writing

  • Setting description

  • Language exploration

  • Narrative writing

  • Language exploration

  • Theme exploration

  • Historical fiction exploration

  • Narrative writing

  • Character exploration

  • Non-fiction links

  • News reports

  • Letter and diary writing

  • Character exploration

  • Narrative Writing

  • Setting exploration

  • Non-fiction writing (mythical beasts)

  • News reports

  • Character exploration

  • Narrative Writing

  • Setting exploration

  • Non-fiction writing (mythical beasts)

  • News reports

  • Narrative writing

  • Character exploration

  • News reports

  • Diary writing

  • Language exploration

  • Character development

  • Diary writing

  • Narrative write

  • Theme exploration

  • Character development

  • Narrative writing

  • News report

  • Setting descriptions

  • Narrative writing

  • Character comparisons and development

  • Diary and letter writing

  • Character exploration

  • Narrative exploration

  • Theme exploration

  • Letter writing

Texts below have been used as extracts, supplementary texts and as stimuli for different writing outcomes in upper key stage 2.

Vast variety of maps taken from literature

Beautiful imagery and rich vocabulary can be used to develop setting descriptions

Ambitious and rich vocabularly used to support setting, character or narrative work

Ambitious vocabulary and sentence structure used to support setting descriptions

Models of excellence to support non-fiction writing as a supporting text

Structure and language exploration to support non-fiction or character writing

Descriptive language, beautiful sentence structure.

Ideal for storytelling, developing story structure and retelling with a twist.

Beautiful language choices, great for fictional writing using ambitious vocabulary and complex grammatical structures

Great opportunity for news paper articles, retellings or character exploration

Beautiful non-fiction writing. Can be used to support children to write cohesive non-fiction pieces that are more creative in style.

Beautiful text for story writing, descriptive pieces. Creative characters - great for character exploration and development.