Year 1 Recount with resources and links - The Emperors Egg - 2 Week English Plan. KS1 Recount

Y1 Recount 2 week plan using the Emperor’s Egg with resources and video links. Suitable for Year 2 Recount planning. All resources provided.

These include exciting resources to motivate and stimulate learning. Resources include sound files to hear penguins, detailed images of penguins from different angles, a word mat with common exception words and a sheet to order events of a hatching chick. Your pupils will really get to know lots about penguins and their environment by the end of this plan. The videos compliment the learning give awe and wonder to the topic.

YouTube links provided detail the time to start watching, if necessary.
A link is also provided to the story so it can currently be used without the book.

Children learn about question marks and exclamation marks, which they see in action in the book. Other lessons develop their spelling of common exception words and phonics knowledge.

Cross curricular ideas are also shared briefly, although there are many more opportunities that haven’t been covered.

At the end of the unit, children recount how to look after a chick using time order words. This can lead on to writing a letter to the zoo and reading Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers.