British Primary School teacher (now living the good life in Spain!) sharing planning and resources to make those planning weekends a little bit easier!
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British Primary School teacher (now living the good life in Spain!) sharing planning and resources to make those planning weekends a little bit easier!
Please check-out my Instagram page (the_diary_of_an_nqt) for more tips, ideas and advice!
Talk For Writing
Termly target: To use wow words, question marks and exclamation marks.
Main outcome: Retelling a Fantasy story through role play and writing.
Text: Winnie in Space
Monday: LO: I can remember main events in a story.
Tuesday: LO: I can participate during a class discussion.
Wednesday: LO: I can plan a story.
Thursday: LO: I can write a recount.
Friday: LO: I can edit and improve my work.
Includes teacher model of 'Winnie in Space' to be used for Talk for Writing.
Includes a weekly SPAG lesson.
Includes resources for lessons and learning grammar - question marks.
Termly target:
simple phrases/sentences that can be read by themselves and others.
capital letters for names of people.
words with finger spaces.
words spelt using their phonic knowledge.
Text(s):
The Works Key Stage 1 by Pie Corbett
The Nursery Rhyme Book by Helen Cumberbatch.
The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes by Raymond Briggs.
The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes by Faith Jacques.
Talk for Writing in The Early Years by Pie Corbett.
A variety of nursery songs and rhymes from the BBC School Radio website.
Traditional Rhymes.
Main outcome: Children write their own poem based on a model
Day 1) LO: I can identify features in a text
Day 2) LO: I can sequence my ideas
Day 3) LO: I can practise a rhyme
Day 4) LO: I can reflect to improve my learning
Day 5) LO: I can publish a rhyme
Termly target: To develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by listening to and discussing a wide range of poems.
Children explore their senses/ capture sensory experiences and learn how to follow rhymes.
Main outcome: To write and perform a poem to their peers.
Text(s): A range of poems
Day 1) LO: I can uses suffixes as plural markers - SPAG lesson (download _es and _s loop cards from Twinkl)
Day 2) LO: I can identify the features of a poem
Day 3) LO: I can use wow words to describe instruments
Day 4) LO: I can use MONSTER (Phonics) words to describe sounds
Day 5) LO: I can explore an instrument by asking questions - SPAG lesson
Curriculum Target:
To write an extended piece of writing
Main outcome: To create an ending for a story
Text: The Snail and The Whale
Day 1) LO: I can explore different settings
Day 2) LO: I can describe a range of settings
Day 3) LO: I can sequence a story
Day 4) LO: I can explore a character
Day 5) LO: Learning Outcome: I can explore my senses
Includes:
All daily resources required (labelled and listed in lesson plan)
Images for classroom display
A child friendly version of the story for the teacher to model daily (without an ending) as the lesson starter so children can create actions (Talk for Writing). This supports the children when they come to write independently in week 2 (so they can copy the model from memory).
* I created a flag and stuck it in the middle of the school field and the initial hook. I also planted a message in a bottle from the snail. (Detailed in lesson plan). Lots of opportunities for creative thinking and talking.
TEN Weeks worth of differentiated (SEN/FSL - LA - MA - HA - GDS) English and Reading Lesson Plans and Resources - (Preferably for Autumn Term as Bonfire Night and Autumnal Poetry covered).
Texts include: Stone Age Boy/ Daisy and The Trouble with Zoos/ City Green/ Poetry/ Animal Performance
Week 1) Introduction Week - Our Natural World
LO: I am learning to describe (Sorting ‘Natural world’ cards and objects and explaining why)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Reading and summarising Habitats text)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Plants text)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Animals text)
LO: I am learning to define (Independent write - Chn revise/reflect on what they have learnt about the natural world and define it in their own simple sentences).
Week 2) Stone Age Boy Text - To predict, describe and create characters/setting descriptions using a range of adjectives/adverbs and pronouns
L.O: I am learning to make predictions (Finding evidence and explaining vocabulary)
L.O: I am learning how to retell a story (Learning partners - images, sequencing or writing)
L.O: I am learning to describe (Writing sentences, wordbanks , Learning partners)
L.O: I am learning to describe
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Annotating images, differentiated Qs).
Week 3) Stone Age Boy Text (Week 2 of 3)
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Exploring Stone Age people)
L.O: I am learning to create (Children create their own Stone Age character)
L.O: I am learning to infer (Writing from the view point of a stone age character.
L.O: I am learning to describe (Describing a Stone Age character’s surroundings; using 5 senses, adverbs of time)
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).
Week 4) Stone Age Boy Text (Week 3 of 3) - Preparing Stone Age poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to retell a poem (Talk for writing, Creating actions to practise reciting poetry orally from memory).
L.O: I am learning the features of a poem (MIxed ability collaborative work).
L.O: I am learning to give an opinion (Sentence stems to help chn explain and justify opinions on different poems)
L.O: I am learning to recite a poem (Children write class poem from memory using T4W actions).
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).
Week 5) Our Natural World - Preparing Natural World poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to describe (Sorting, building vocabulary, using adjectives to describe findings)
L.O. I am learning to analyse a poem (Comprehension - answering differentiated Qs to explore a poem)
L.O: I am learning how to plan a poem (Differentiated writing frames for planning a poem)
L.O: I am learning to write a poem (Children write a poem on our natural world)