Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 1/2 Spring Modern Fiction
Contemporary Picture Books
Enjoy three delightful picture books, The Invisible, The Night Gardener and Last Stop on Market Street. Learn spelling rules for adding prefixes and suffixes. Be inspired to write a story using vivid descriptive language.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: The Night Gardener and The Invisible
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers
The Invisible by Tom Percival
Unit 2 SPaG: Prefixes (un–) and suffixes (–er, –est)
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Invisible by Tom Percival
Unit 3 SPaG: Descriptive writing – expanded noun and prepositional phrases
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers
Unit 4 Composition: writing a story inspired by a text shared in class
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
The Night Gardener by the Fan Brothers
The Invisible by Tom Percival