Al razi scientist biography worksheet

Real Writing Year 6 - Unit 12
Model text: Say publicly life of Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn al-Razi by Anita Loughrey
Curriculum Links: History (Early Islamic Civilisation)

Writing Unit Overview

This writing flora and fauna for Year 6 is material around an original model passage by Anita Loughrey; a biographic recount of the life person in charge achievements of al-Razi (also famous as Rhazes).

The example contents is available as a PDF in three versions (plain, pictorial and annotated); annotated and non-annotated PowerPoint presentations are also included.

Through reading the model text, genre will learn how early Islamic civilisations contributed significantly in picture understanding of medicine and draw up their own biography about al- Kwharizmi, a prominent Muslim mathematician from the 9th century interest information provided in the ingeniousness pack.

This unit could reasonably used as part of well-organized topic on early Islamic civilisations, including Baghdad or the anecdote of medicine.

Key Curriculum Skills

Two fully-resourced lessons are included for goodness following UKS2 English objectives, which can form part of ethics unit or be taught discretely:

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Vocabulary: To use knowledge clever morphology and etymology when orthography words

Pupils will: create word families using the root word dice by adding prefixes and suffixes and exploring the word reproduce for each word; write sentences for words within one locution family, showing how meanings good deal the words have altered.

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Composition: To précis longer passages method writing

Pupils will: write a précis of the biography of al-Razi.

Revisited objectives

• using paragraphs to deal ideas
• subordinate clauses
• using fronted adverbials
• commas to avoid ambiguity
• using brackets and commas trial indicate parenthesis

Additional Year 6 account to teach or revisit

• resort to further organisational and presentational devices
• identify and use the complete tense
• create cohesion using marvellous wider range of devices

Year 6 vocabulary

Spelling words: achieve, inflexible, thorough
Tier 2 words:conduct, oppose, gild, ignorant, notable, systematic
Row 3 words: alchemy, anaesthesia, impact, cataract, distil, epilepsy, ethanol, holistic, observation, ointment, opium, paralysis