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)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
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
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.
You can purchase printed copies of this Group Reader from Hamilton Education.
You Will Need
Group Readers
Boris and Sid Make a Mess
Unit 3 SPAG: Build sentences; sentence punctuation; retelling and changing a story
(suggested as 3 days)
Unit 4 Composition: Extended writing: write a lost toy story
(suggested as 4 days)
