Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 1/2 Spring Information Texts
Incredible Creatures
Identify features of non-fiction texts and find out information about incredible creatures. Revise sentence types and use subordinating conjunctions to add information. Research, draft, write and edit a blog post.
The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.
Unit 1 Core: Read and respond to non-fiction texts about incredible creatures
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks and other incredible creature features by Alex Morss and Sean Taylor. Illustrated by Sarah Edmonds
Unit 2 SPaG: Types of sentence; sentence punctuation, including capital letters for names
(suggested as 2 days)
Unit 3 SPaG: Subordinating conjunctions; subordinate clauses
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
Swim, Shark, Swim! by Dom Conlon and Anastasia Izlesou
Unit 4 Composition: a blog post on how to help wildlife
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks and other incredible creature features by Alex Morss and Sean Taylor. Illustrated by Sarah Edmonds
Optional Text
Swim, Shark, Swim! by Dom Conlon and Anastasia Izlesou