Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 1/2 Autumn Traditional Tales and Fables
The Story Blanket
Using The Story Blanket, Wolfy and other stories explore traditional tales and fables. Learn about the past tense and conjunctions and how to use these to write your own exciting tale.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: listen and respond to new and traditional stories
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
The Story Blanket by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz, illustrated by Elena Odriozola
Wolfy by Gregoire Solotareff
Little Red Riding Hood told by Ruth Merttens or Deanna Rodger
Unit 2 SPaG: Subordination and Coordination
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
A version of Aesop’s fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Weblink
BBC drama and dance version of The Boy who Cried Wolf.
Unit 3 SPaG: the past tense, simple and progressive forms
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
Why not me? by Ruth Merttens and Jackie Abey, Hamilton Group Reader
Presentation
Grammar PowerPoint: Past tense
Group Readers
Why not me?
This story plays with the genre of traditional stories. A woodpecker wants to know why she is not in any tale. This story draws children’s attention to a wide range of tales and then challenges the reader to write a story with a woodpecker in it!
Unit 4 Composition: plan and write a new version of Wolfy
(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
The Story Blanket by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz, illustrated by Elena Odriozola
Wolfy by Gregoire Solotareff