The Sun Yr 5 Reading to Learn Cycle Term 3

Receptive modes (listening, reading and viewing) By the end of Year 5, students explain how text structures assist in understanding the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings and events. They analyse and explain literal and implied information from a variety of texts. They describe how events, characters and settings in texts are depicted and explain their own responses to them. They listen and ask questions to clarify content. Productive modes (speaking, writing and creating) Students use language features to show how ideas can be extended. They develop and explain a point of view about a text, selecting information, ideas and images from a range of resources. Students create a variety of sequenced texts for different purposes and audiences. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, taking into account other perspectives. When writing, they demonstrate understanding of grammar, select specific vocabulary and use accurate spelling and punctuation, editing their work to provide structure and meaning.

Teaching Goals:

Identify structure of descriptive report & subject specific vocabulary Space Descriptive Information Report Universe, nuclear fusion reactions, atmosphere, helium, convection, satellite communications, solar flare, magnetic field, solar interior, white dwarf. Sun

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Background knowledge: The universe is made of galaxies and solar systems. Nuclear fusion reactions is when the hydrogen and helium nuclei (center of the atom, which make up everything) collide at high speed. Atmosphere is the layer of gases surrounding the body of a mass (planet). Convection zone is the outer layer of heat produced by the sun and all stars. Communication satellite is an artificial satellite that orbits in space. Helium is a chemical element that is colourless, odourless and tasteless and makes up part of the Suns core. Solar flare is a sudden brightening that occurs on the surface of the Sun (like an explosion from the outer layer). Magnetic field is the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet. White dwarf is the final

state of all stars that have burnt up. Radiate is to send out rays or waves. Summary of the text: This text is a descriptive report. The first paragraph is the classification of the Sun as part of the universe and the center of our solar system. The second paragraph describes what the Sun looks like and what it is filled with. The third paragraph describes the layers of the sun and what happens in each layer from the core to the radiative zone and then convection. The fourth paragraph describes the layers of atmosphere surrounding the sun from photosphere to chromosphere and then corona. The fifth paragraph comes under the subtitle of Solar Wind and Flares. It defines these phenomena and explains some actions and effects on us. The sixth paragraph tells us what will happen to the Sun and all stars when they use up the hydrogen in their core. Comprehension Questions: Literal: What reaction occurs deep in the suns core? What are the patches of particles that burst from the sun? Inferential: Why dont we have to be concerned about the sun exploding? Why is the sun unremarkable? (not that special) Interpretive: Like the sun is changing in a certain way, how is our Earth changing? Why?

Detailed Reading Lesson Plan One Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Suffixes/ prefixes Spherical convection The first sentence tells us the reaction that happens in the suns core that helps to create energy.
Core = center // Nuclear fusion reactions = Nuclear fusion reactions is when the hydrogen and helium nuclei (center of the atom, which make up everything) collide at high speed // convert = to change // hydrogen (element) to helium (element) = nuclear reaction that changes the type of gas // generates energy = produces energy

Deep in the sun's core, nuclear fusion reactions convert hydrogen to helium, which generates energy.
Nuclear power exists within power plants. These power plants fuse hydrogen and helium together at high speed to produce energy. LIKE ON THE SIMPSONS This sentence focuses on how energy is transferred to different layers of the sun.

What 3 words at the start describe what photons are? What are the photons doing? Spherical = circular 3D shape // shell = outer layer // Radiative zone = refer to diagram

Particles of light called photons carry this energy through the sun's spherical shell, called the radiative zone,
Spherical = like a tennis ball
The next part of the sentence describes the top layer of the sun before its atmosphere. This is known as the convection zone. Top layer = outer layer of internal structure // Core to convection = solar interior // Convection = outer layer of interior.

to the top layer of the solar interior, the convection zone.

Latin root words nuclear

Subject specific vocab fusion

Plurals generates

Detailed Reading Lesson Plan Two Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Disrupt = disturb // satellite communication = satellites that orbit around space // knock out = turn off power which can disrupt satellite communications and knock out power on Earth. Solar flare is like a power surge in your own home which shuts down power/ internet everything. This sentence describes where flares come from and what sun spots are. Remember word at start topic word // usually = how often it happens // activity of sunspots = movement of the sunspots // next part describes what sunspots are // cool regions of photosphere = darker cooler spots Flares usually stem from the activity of sunspots, which are cool regions of the photosphere. A group of Sunspots = might cover 1000s km, appear and disappear in 11 year cycles. Latin root words Particles Subject specific vocab Particles Satellite Communications Photosphere Plurals The first sentence tells us that sometimes small pieces of the sun can burst which is known as a solar flare. How often? Every so often // what does a patch look like? Small quantity of small bits patch of particles // burst = explode // in a solar flare,= sudden brightening that occurs on the surface of the Sun Every so often, a patch of particles will burst from the sun in a solar flare, Solar flare is like an explosion

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Detailed Reading Lesson Plan Three Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations Sentence Prep Cues Sentence Elaborations The next part of the sentence tells us what will eventually happen to the sun. Collapse into a white dwarf= fall in on itself // what are the words that tell us how small it will eventually be and then collapse into a white dwarf about the size of planet Earth. White dwarf = is the final state of all stars that have burnt up // collapsing - think of a transformer collapsing into a car etc. Latin root words Expand (base word is expand to create expansion etc) Subject specific vocab Dwarf Collapse Plurals This sentence tells us how big the sun will grow too in its next phase and how it will affect our solar system. What will the sun do ? expand. Expand grow // a hundred times its current size = describes how much bigger it will get // swallowing Earth and other planets = Earth and other planet will no longer exist The sun will expand to about a hundred times its current size, swallowing Earth and other planets. 100 x bigger using MAB 1 to compare to 100s / synonyms 4 swallowing This sentence tells us that the sun will continue to burn for a very long time. Red giant = big ball of hot mass // billion years = 1000million years It will burn as a red giant for another billion years

Suffixes/ prefixes Swallowing