Planning and Activities
Fiction
English Year 1 Summer Modern Fiction
Ed Vere Stories
The engaging Max stories by Ed Vere form the backbone of a block focused on reading for understanding and stimulating creative writing. Write character profiles, describe bad dreams and sequence narratives.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Read and respond to stories about a character
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Max the Brave by Ed Vere
Max and Bird by Ed Vere
Unit 2 SPaG: Joining words and sentences using ‘and’
(suggested as 3 days)
Unit 3 Comprehension: Read and discuss books about night-time and bedtime routines
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
Group Readers
Chicken’s bad dream
This is a very simple text, suitable for start-up readers, which has a nice play on bad dreams with a quirky, surreal aspect to it will which amuse young readers. Bold illustrations complement the text.
You can purchase printed copies of this Group Reader from Hamilton Education.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Max at Night by Ed Vere
Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere
Unit 4 SPaG: Sequencing sentences to form short narratives
(suggested as 3 days)
Unit 5 Composition: Writing a story about a familiar character
(suggested as 5 days)
