The Invisible by Tom Percival
3 week unit plan with accompanying power points and resources.
Complete reading, grammar and writing, plan.
Writing outcomes: first person story with a moral message.
This is a 3 week English unit on instructions based on the Text Supertato.
The unit includes:
Hook for learning
Vocabulary development
Reading as a reader - feelings I have / questions I have
Reading as a writer - alliteration
Grammar - verbs , commands and questions
Features of instructions
Planning
writing
Editing
Publishing.
This is a three week unit of work that explores the year 2 reading and writing objectives through a fairy tale writing theme.
It draws upon the following texts: The True Story of The three Little Pigs, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig and Revolting Rhymes.
The children learn about telling stories from a different perspective.
They cover the following areas:
Learning Hook
Developing vocabulary
Reading - predicting and summary.
Grammar - commas in a list, adjectives and apostrophes for possession.
writing - describing characters, planning, writing an alternative fairy tale, editing and revising.
This is a two week unit of work that explores the year 2 reading and writing objectives through an non-fiction theme. P
It is based around the book How to help a hedgehog and protect a polar bear by Jess French and links well to geography and science units on living things and habitats and conservation.
The unit includes the following areas:
Hook for Learning
Vocabulary
Reading as a reader - persuasive devices
Reading as a writer - features of non-chronological reports
Grammar - present tense, subordinating conjunctions
Planning
Writing
Editing
Publishing
This is a 3 week English unit based on ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers. The children write their own space themed stories based on the book.
The unit covers:
Hook for learning
Vocabulary
Reading as a reader
Reading as a writer
Conjunctions, adjectives and expanded noun phrases
Plan
Write
Edit
Publish
I have also included a writing frame created to support
This is a 5 week Geography unit of work comparing local area to country in Asia. I have used Pakistan to reflect school context.
Each lesson has a key question, key skill and key knowledge.
Planning document, resources and lesson power points included.
This unit makes use of Google maps.
This will need adapting to reflect your local area.
This is a 2 week unit based on the books Winnie and Wiblur at Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year Around the World. This unit was to tie in with Chinese New Year celebrations and looks at creating a play script.
The unit covers
Hook for learning
Vocabulary development - synonyms
Reading as a reader and a writer
Grammar - conjunctions, present tense
Planning, writing, editing and punctuating
This is a 3 week unit on work that ties nicely with Black History Month based on the Little Leaders, Bold Black Women in History book by Vashti Harrison.
Children think about who inspires them and write letters to their heroes.
The pack includes powerpoints. I have also included resources i made although some I used from common teacher resource sites.
This unit covers:
A hook for learning -
Vocabulary - racism, prejudice and discrimination
Reading as a reader - retrieval
Reading as a writer - features of a letter
Grammar - questions and exclamations
Research
Planning
writing
editing
publishing
This lesson looks at plotting coordinates in 2 quadrants and translating shape,
The session includes a starter, main, paired activity, independent task and an extension. The plenary looks at applying their understanding to solve some problems. All resources are included but you will need some counters.
Reading in other subjects.
Ideas for books linked to curriculum areas for all primary phases.
Easily adaptable to suit your school curriculum.
Including a range of diverse authors and texts.
Subjects included: Art, British Values, Computing, DT, Geography, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE and RE.
An excel document that allows teachers to track class progress against NC reading objectives.
Useful for reading subject leaders to monitor progress across school, identify strengths and areas for development.
These Fairy Tale Mad Libs promotes a love of reading whilst providing children the opportunity to apply and consolidate their grammar knowledge in a fun way. Simply ask children to suggest examples for different parts of speech and types of sentence, then enjoy the hilarious effect they have when inserted into gaps in the short stories. With a different story each time, who can make the funniest version?