'Beegu' Year 1 English Planning and Resources

Based around the book ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon, this 10 lesson English Unit of Work covers Year 1 National Curriculum Objectives for S & L, Reading, Grammar and Spelling and Composition. The unit includes editable planning documents, worksheets, writing frames and much more.  End of unit Writing: Recount Writing.

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Unit overview:

In this unit, the children will discover a UFO crash scene in the school grounds! Children will be engaged in discussion about who has crashed here, where are they and should we be worried?  The class will be introduced to the book ‘Beegu’ by Alexis Deacon. Through shared reading lessons, children will be taught how to make inferences, using the information provided through text and images. Children will also be encouraged to link emotions from the story to their own personal experiences of being lost or upset. As the children continue to read the text, they will be taught how to make simple predictions based on what they have already read. After reading the whole text, the class will use story maps to sequence and retell the main events from the story. Children will then analyse the spelling and grammar features within the text, with special attention to the use of apostrophe for contraction and the use of the prefix ‘un’ for adjectives. Personal pronoun ‘I’ will be used to support the children when writing a simple ‘police statement’ regarding their thoughts about Beegu. The unit will then build up to one final writing piece, orally rehearsing the sentences to write a recount of Beegu’s time on Earth.

Reading Objectives:

Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
Being encouraged to link what they read or hear read to their own experiences.
Predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
Becoming very familiar with key storiesand retelling them, considering their particular characteristics.
Read words with contractions [for example, I’m, I’ll, we’ll], and understand that the apostrophe represents the omitted letter(s).

Speaking and Listening Objectives:

Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.
Participate in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say.

Grammar Objectives:

How the prefix un– changes the meaning of verbs and adjectives.
Capital letters for the personal pronoun ‘I’.
Sequencing sentences to form short narratives.

Writing Objectives:

Composing a sentence orally before writing it.
Re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense.

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