Year 2 - How to Grow a Dinosaur - 2 Week Writing Unit

Introducing our comprehensive 2-Week Writing Unit, specifically designed around the delightful story ‘How to Grow a Dinosaur’ by Caryl Hart. This immersive unit encourages students to delve into their creativity and weave their own narrative stories.

Key Features:

End of Topic (Big Writing): By the end of this engaging two-week journey, students will have mastered the skills necessary to write compelling narrative stories. Picture your students crafting tales that captivate and inspire!

Includes: The unit comes complete with interactive Smart Notebook slides, illustrative models, detailed lesson plans, and fun-filled activities. These resources aim to foster an engaging and dynamic learning environment.

Curriculum link: Narrative stories linked to the fascinating topic of plants, allowing students to explore and learn about the natural world while honing their writing skills.

Learning Objectives:

Spoken Word: Students will learn to give well-structured descriptions, explanations, and narratives for various purposes, including expressing feelings. They’ll participate actively in collaborative conversations, use spoken language to explore ideas, speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English, and engage in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations, and debates.

Comprehension: Students will work on sequencing and discussing the main events in stories, retelling a wider range of stories, fairy tales, and traditional tales, and identifying, discussing, and collecting favourite words and phrases.

Composition: Our unit guides students to plan and discuss what to write about, use specific text type features to write for a range of audiences and purposes, write about real and fictional events, and proofread to check for errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation: The unit will help students construct and punctuate simple and compound sentences using connectives, use sentences with different forms, use subordination for reason, generate and effectively use verbs and adjectives, use past tense for narrative, and use the suffix ‘ly’ to turn adjectives into adverbs.

Embark on this exciting 2-week journey with our Writing Unit and let’s nurture your students’ storytelling skills while they delve into the captivating world of plants and dinosaurs!