Planning and Activities
Fiction
English Year 1 Autumn Familiar Settings
Family Stories
Read Jill Murphy's Five Minutes' Peace, Mo Willems' Knuffle Bunny and Group Reader Boris and Sid Make a Mess, inspiring children to write a familiar settings story.
The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.
Unit 1 Core: Characters, settings and problems in stories
(suggested as 3 days)
Coping with Lockdown?
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Five Minutes' Peace by Jill Murphy
Unit 2 Comprehension: Group/paired reading; discuss a story; building sentences
(suggested as 3 days)
Planning and Activities
Coping with Lockdown?
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Provided in resources
Group Readers
Boris and Sid Make a Mess
Boris and Sid Make a Mess, by Ruth Merttens, is a humorous story told in a very familiar setting. The illustrations make children laugh out loud, and the text is easily decodable by beginning readers.
Unit 3 SPAG: Build sentences; sentence punctuation; retelling and changing a story
(suggested as 3 days)
Planning and Activities
Coping with Lockdown?
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
Unit 4 Composition: Extended writing: write a lost toy story
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
Coping with Lockdown?
With TA/Tutor
These materials are for a TA or Tutor to use with a small group of children or one child.
They support the learning in class in this unit.
Notes are provided for teacher and TA/Tutor.
Back to Lockdown?
If your class or school is having to close for a while, these materials provide a home dimension as well as a clear route map outlining what to teach online, and what to practise at home.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems