The Nowhere Emporium - Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for Year 5 students during Summer Term 2 revolve around the core text 'The Nowhere Emporium' by Ross MacKenzie, integrating cross-curricular links with Science, focusing on life cycles, and Geography, emphasizing the importance of raw materials and map skills. The unit's written outcomes are designed to inspire creativity and understanding, with students tasked to invent their own Wonder Room, recount trips or experiences, explain life cycles, and describe the emporium through eye witness reports. These activities aim to apply the knowledge gained from the core text and associated non-fiction materials.

For reading, objectives include using context to understand idiomatic language, recognizing how writers use a mix of dialogue, action, and description to advance the narrative, and appreciating 'show, don't tell' techniques for character development. Students will also practice inferring characters' feelings and summarizing main ideas, while comparing books with similar themes. In writing, the focus is on using prior knowledge to create writing criteria, balancing narrative elements, and ensuring clarity and coherence in paragraphing. Grammar objectives emphasize the importance of tense, topic sentences, and the use of commas, relative clauses, and modality to enhance writing. These objectives collectively aim to develop a deeper understanding of language and its effects, as well as to refine students' writing abilities.