Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx planning, resources and smart notebook for 3 weeks writing an adventure story.
Week 1 contains 1 bank holiday - 4 days planning and resources including 1 day using talk for writing to learn the structure of the story
Week 2 - 5 days planning and resources teaching and embedding the skills needed for writing an adventure story
Week 2 - 5 days planning and resources based on modeling and then writing own stories
Using the Mini Grey book Traction Man and based on some T4W techniques.
Weeks are based on 4 sessions
Week 1 - includes gathering vocabulary, inference and drawing a story map.
Week 2 - includes grammar skills lessons using Traction Man.
Week 3 - includes using the structure to create their own adventure and writing up their story.
Year 2 Amelia Earhart Biography planning and resources for 2 weeks
Week 1 includes - feature finding, gathering facts, past tense
Week 2 includes - apostrophes, headings and subheadings, draft and publish
Full 2 weeks of planning, resources and powerpoints/notebooks for Biography writing on Mary Anning. Planned for year 2 and 3.
Cross Curricular links to history and science
Mr Men Year 2 Planning, slides and resources used in the Summer term for 2 weeks.
Includes:
Cold task
Key features
Gathering descriptive vocabulary
Using descriptive vocabulary
Create own Mr Men Character
Gather descriptive vocabulary
Plan
Write
Publish
2 weeks of writing on Biographies about Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.
Features of a biography, gathering facts, past tense, possessive apostrophes, heading and subheadings, elicitation (cold) and assessment (hot) tasks.
Sign posts for working walls using Letter Join.
Included: English Working Wall, Maths Working Wall and Foundation Subject Working Wall signposts.
I use these on my whiteboards to make them working walls.
Reading reward card giving children 20 dojo points for reading 10 books. I use this with Accelerated Reader so children complete a quiz over 80% to get the stamp. Editable.
Full 3 weeks complete planning, resources and notebooks for a retell of the story. This resource is linked to the film and book Varmints. Varmints is available on Vimeo for free. This planning is for year 2 but easily adaptable for year 3/4.
Traditional Tale KS1
Using Nosy Crow’s Little Red Riding Hood, full planning, slides and resources INCLUDING a story map.
2 weeks for Year 2 loosely based on T4W.
Year 2 Home Learning Powerpoint/PDF with online links for Traditional Tales with a Twist - Linked to the book Three Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig (youtube link included for story) Covid 19 - Coronavirus