Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 1/2 Autumn Humorous Stories
Squashed Spaces!
Enjoy reading A Squash and a Squeeze and Alone! Sequence events and compare the stories. Explore sentence types and using comparatives and superlatives. Write and orally tell a story using A Farm Story as a model.
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Unit 1 Core: Listening to and comparing humorous stories on a theme
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
The Hamilton Trust’s version of The Farm Story told by Wilf Merttens, available at The Farm Story, as told by Wilf Merttens | Storytelling from Hamilton Trust - YouTube
Alone! by Barry Falls
Unit 2 SPaG: Reading and writing different types of sentence: statements, questions and exclamations
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Group Reader
Animal Upsets by Ruth Merttens and Anne Holm Petersen
Group Readers
Animal Upsets
Children will enjoy reading about the naughty things animals get up to (often without meaning to!). With its simple rhyming pattern this is great text to use when studying poetry and rhyme
Unit 3 SPaG: Reading, writing and spelling adjectives with the suffixes -er and -est
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
Alone! by Barry Falls
Unit 4 Composition: writing and orally retelling a funny story based on those heard 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
A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
The Hamilton Trust’s version of The Farm Story told by Wilf Merttens, available at The Farm Story, as told by Wilf Merttens | Storytelling from Hamilton Trust - YouTube