Bog Baby, three week writing unit

Talk! Drama! Reading skills! Sentence skills! Making and drawing! Spelling skills! Writing a narrative! This is a creatively planned and fully resourced three week writing unit. It is aimed at year 1, or the beginning of year 2. The planning and activities have been carefully differentiated and there are plenty of opportunities for greater depth writing. If you buy this, please use the zip folder. It is organised into folders, lesson by lesson.

There is also one sentence grammar activity themed with Jack and the Beanstalk.

The following objectives are covered across the three week unit (many are covered more than once):

Drama
• I can explore a story through improvisation and role play. I can act out a story I know using voices for characters.

Spelling
• Suffixes that can be added to verbs) with a focus on -ed endings: I can add the –ed suffix to verbs.

Sentence/Punctuation
• How words can combine to make sentences: I can show what I already know about sentences. I can talk in sentences. I can spot sentences.
• Introduction to capital letters, full stops demarcate sentences: I can add full stops to the end of a sentence.
• Joining words and joining clauses using and: I can join my ideas together using ‘and’.
• Capital letters for names: I can use capital letters for names.

Composition
• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives: I can put sentences in a sensible order. I can use the skills I have learned to write a story.
• Similes: I can write a simile.

**Reading: **
• Vocabulary: I can fix meaning breakdowns.
• Inference: I can tell you about why a character does or says things.

**Terminology: **
• letter, capital letter, word, sentence, punctuation, full stop