Non-fiction

English Year 1/2 Summer Information Texts

Interviews

Using An Interview with a Tiger, learn more about a range of animals, find information, make notes and create fact files. Revise sentence types and practise writing descriptively before writing a class information book.

Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.

Core
Unit 1 Core: Reading and writing interviews
(suggested as 5 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Essential Text:
Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East

Audio Resource:
Reading of 'Interview with an Armadillo' (provided)

SPAG
Unit 2 SPaG: Punctuation in different types of sentence
(suggested as 3 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Essential Text:
Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East

SPAG
Unit 3 SPaG: Adjectives and qualifying adverbs in descriptive writing
(suggested as 2 days)

Group Readers

Boris and Sid find a Tiger
Boris and Sid find a Tiger, by Ruth Merttens, gives a nice twist to familiar animals which turn up in children’s lives. Useful to read alongside information texts on animals as well as fiction, this story is for those who are beginning to decode slightly harder words.

You Will Need

Essential Texts:

Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East

Boris and Sid Find a Tiger by Ruth Merttens and Anne Holm Petersen Hamilton Group Reader

Composition
Unit 4 Composition: writing pages for class information books on birds
(suggested as 5 days)

SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation

There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.

You Will Need

Essential Text:
Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East

Optional Text:
Interview with a Shark and other Ocean Giants Too by Andy Seed and Nick East