Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 1/2 Summer Instructions
Food Stories
Using food-focused stories as inspiration, write instructions linked to the characters and themes. Revise commas in lists and explore sentence types. Compare the texts read and write a book review.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Food and Instructions in Story Books
(suggested as 5 days)
Group Readers
No Thank You
Children will enjoy the humour of this bright and engaging book. Bobo and Muna want to feed the animals but they get a little muddled up, luckily the animals solve the problem and get their dinner in the end.
You Will Need
Essential Text:
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Group Reader:
No Thank You by Ruth Merttens and Jackie Abey
Unit 2 SPaG: Sentences of Different Sorts: Questions, Statements, Commands and Exclamations
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Questions, Statements, Commands and Exclamations
You Will Need
Group Reader:
No Thank You by Ruth Merttens and Jackie Abey
Group Readers
No Thank You
Children will enjoy the humour of this bright and engaging book. Bobo and Muna want to feed the animals but they get a little muddled up, luckily the animals solve the problem and get their dinner in the end.
Unit 3 SPaG: Commas in Lists; Spelling Plurals
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
Commas in lists
You Will Need
Essential Text:
I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Unit 4 Composition: Writing a Story Containing Commands and Instructions
(suggested as 5 days)
