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Calamitous Creatures

English Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Reception/Year 1 Mixed Age English Planning Storybook Characters

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Exploring and Playing

  1. Magical play dough
  2. Rhyming pairs
  3. Calamitous creature models
  4. Role play

You Will Need

Essential Texts
It's Behind You! Monster Poems by Paul Cookson and David Harmer

Weblinks

The Dragon Who Ate Our School by Nick Toczek

Group Reader
Animal Rhymes by Ruth Merttens

Group Readers

Animal Rhymes

This is a lovely collection of humorous rhyming couplets.  The illustrations bring the creatures to life and the level of the text, together with simple rhymes, makes it great for children who are beginning to be able to read simple texts independently.   

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