Adventure Story - Dinosaur English Planning

Adventure Story - Dinosaur English Planning
Suitable for KS1

This a very detailed unit of planning (1900 words) with ALL resources and a 44-slide PowerPoint. This weekly planning builds children up to writing an adventure story about dinosaurs. The hook for this writing is based off an image titled ‘The Visitor’. The plan includes 5 days of English lessons with the below WALTs:

1. Plan an adventure story.
2. Create a detailed setting.
3. Create a developed character.
4. Write a great opening.
5. Assessment opportunity.

This plan includes 4 levels of differentiation;
Red 1 - SEN children
Yellow 2 - Main task with a scaffold
Green 3 - Main task
Blue 4 - Greater depth/ mastery challenge

The planning highlights the Year 1 and 2 National Curriculum expectations. The PowerPoint models and highlights key features of adventure stories and guides the children through writing their own. The final lesson is dedicated as an assessment opportunity, but it could be more guided. All planning and resources are easily adaptable.

Note: To ensure that the PowerPoint works as designed, when you download the PowerPoint make sure you click ‘Extract all’ then ‘Browse’ to save the PowerPoint to your computer. PowerPoint might give you a message saying that some external content has been blocked due to security reasons. Click ‘allow’ or ‘enable’ so that the links work fully.

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Looking for more English Planning around the theme of dinosaurs? Check them out below!
Writing instructions on how to look after a dinosaur!
Change a Story
Non-fiction Writing - Information Leaflet for a Class Museum
Persuasive Letter - Don’t let a T-Rex read a book!
Roarsome Poetry Writing

Looking for a FREE Medium Term Plan for the topic of ‘Dinosaurs’? Check this one out!

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