Traction Man (Year 2 English Planning and Resources)

KS1 Planning and Resources Unit of Work based around the picture book ‘Traction Man Is Here’ by Mini Grey. 10 Lessons fully planned with objectives linked to the KS1 National Curriculum for Reading, S & L, Grammar and Composition. Lessons and worksheets included. Final writing piece: Adventure Story Writing.

Unit Overview:

In this unit, the class will be greeted with a toy ‘Traction Man Figure’. The class will be presented with the story book ‘Traction Man Is Here!’ by Mini Grey. During shared reading lessons, children will be taught effective reading strategies, beginning with making simple verbal predictions. As they are reading, they will be encouraged to identify unfamiliar vocabulary and make use of word webs to clarify meaning. Using hot-seating, children will begin to ask questions about the characters feelings and then go on to answer inference questions by gathering clues from the text. The children will then notice how the author has used grammar and punctuation effectively to add elements of suspense, action and sound. They will recognise and use onomatopoeia within their own written work, along with exclamation marks. The children will then unpick elements of the text that uses expanded noun phrases to describe Traction Man’s outfits. These noun phrases will then be organised into lists using commas to separate each item. Guided writing lessons will be focused on planning a new adventure story that continues for Traction Man. Children will use their own planning document and draft their own writing using a checklist generated by the children in class.

Resources Included in the Zip File:
Editable Planning Documents (10 lessons Microsoft Word Document)
Character description writing frames (PDF)
Commas in a list (PPTX)
Images of Action Men (PDF)
Inference Question Cards (PDF)
Label the toy figure worksheets (PDF)
Onomatopoeia Worksheets (PDF)
Onomatopoeia (PPTX)
Onomatopoeia design a t-shirt worksheets (PDF)
Planning Action Story Worksheet (PDF)
Blank Story Map (PDF)
Word Web Worksheets (PDF)
Traction Man Writing Paper (PDF)