Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 1/2 Spring Humorous Stories
Animal Stories
Enjoy reading and comparing David Walliams' There is a Snake and Tony Ross' The Creature Choir. Have fun writing animal profiles and short stories. Learn how to spell past tense verbs and and use conjunctions. Be imaginative by writing a story continuation for I want a Pet by Lauren Child.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Discussing and responding to stories about pets and other animals
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
There’s a Snake in my School! by David Walliams and Tony Ross
The Creature Choir by David Walliams and Tony Ross
Unit 2 SPaG: the past tense, including the progressive form
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
There’s a Snake in my School! by David Walliams and Tony Ross
Unit 3 SPaG: co-ordination and subordination – using conjunctions to join clauses
(suggested as 2 days)
Unit 4 Composition: writing stories about pets
(suggested as 5 days)
