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developed over time I can identify similarities and differences between lettering from the present day and the past I can use runes to communicate Handout to the children a sheet with a sentence from Saxon Runes - ask the children to see if they can work out what it says..? This could prove impossible! Explain to the chn that today we will be unlocking the Anglo-Saxon alphabet and writing our own sentences using the ‘Runes’ • Chn can then use these sentences to give to their friends on another table to unravel. • Discuss what the likes and dislikes are/similarities and differences are as a whole class of the Anglo Saxon Runes mystery sentence! Children should then write a series of sentences for their friends to decode Borderline (Walliams) Children to write their name and a simple sentence using runes and see if they can decode the mystery sentence! Less Able (Morpurgo and Wilson) Children to write their name using runes and see if they can decode the mystery sentence! This unit is designed to ‘ease’ students into the higher level unit on Norman Conquest