Unit of Work: The Snail and the Whale creative writing

8 session Year 2 English creative writing unit of work that can be easily adapted for other year groups. There is a focus on correctly sequencing a story and the use of adjectives and expanded noun phrases to describe and specify. The planning is based around ‘The Snail and the Whale’ by Julia Donaldson but can be tweaked to apply to an adventure story of your choice. Cutaways are suggested within the planning for a variety of groups of children.

This resource includes:
- 8 sessions of planning
- sentence opener and suffix scaffold cards for children requiring additional support
- ‘think about it’ prompt cards for more able writers
- lesson starter activities
- suffixes presentation (also available separately)
- emotions graph template
- planning frame and vocabulary gathering extension sheet