Dear Mother Goose writing unit for Year 1/2

This unit is based on a great children’s book by Michael Rosen ‘Dear Mother Goose’. It covers National Curriculum objectives for writing and is a great starter unit/perfect for a lower ability class. It assumes children have some knowledge of Colourful Semantics but this can be easily omitted. The unit has been written mainly for year 1 but it has some ideas and the potential to cover some of the year 2 objectives as well. The idea is, we read the whole book to the class but then focus on one nursery rhyme as a model. Text maps have been provided for two of the rhymes - Incey Wincey Spider and Little Miss Muffet.
The pack contains a powerpoint with notes for teaching, two activity sheets for two of the lessons and two story maps (T4W style). Each teacher will need to adapt the slides to their class, especially in the indpendent writing stage, where only master slide for sentence doctor has been provided. The starting slides have been designed specifically for my class, who stuggled with transcription, spelling and phonics. Those will need to be amended for your class.