Bedtime and dreams

English Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Reception/Year 1 Mixed Age English Planning Imagination and Dreams

Exploring and Playing

  1. Monster explorer role play
  2. Model monsters
  3. Bedtime stories
  4. Shadow monsters

You Will Need

Essential text
Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere

Group Reader
Chicken’s Bad Dream by Ruth Merttens

Group Readers

Chicken’s Bad Dream

This is a very simple text, suitable for start-up readers, which has a nice play on bad dreams with a quirky, surreal aspect to it will which amuse young readers. Bold illustrations complement the text.