Year 1 Lorax Unit of Work: Instructions

This is a Year 1 unit of work on Instructions based around the story ‘The Lorax’ and our wonderful planet Earth, it took a little over 2 weeks to complete. It brings about lovely discussions in Year regarding our planet and conservation. PowerPoints and accompanying worksheets are supplied.

Previous to this unit, the book, The Lorax, will need to have been read and an idea developed for the children’s writing outcome. We made Truffula Trees from died cotton wool and pipe cleaner as a hook then set about developing the children’s instructional writing in order to write a final piece about ‘How to Take Care of the Truffula Trees’.

Day 1: make Truffula Trees using died cotton wool and pipe cleaner.

Day 2: draw comparisons between Truffula trees and trees in the real world. Go outside, explore, take pictures, celebrate the greatness of nature with the children. Elicit from them the importance of trees and why they should be looked after. Write idea on flipchart and display. To help children who struggle to read, you could represent ideas pictorially as well.

Day 3: Bossy verbs at home and school (PowerPoint and Worksheet Supplied).

Day 4: Bossy verbs with the Lorax(PowerPoint and Worksheet Supplied) .

Day 5: Time order words to sort order of the story, The Lorax (PowerPoint and Worksheet Supplied).

Day 6: Plan pictorially the steps.

Day 7: model intro and allow children to write own intro.

Day 8: write steps and for those who write quicker than most, they could add a top tip.

Day 9: Feedback, teacher input on common mistakes. In Year 1, we will then give children a worksheet to correct.

Day 10: publish, read and celebrate work.