Planning and Activities
Non-fiction
English Year 1 Summer Letters and Postcards
Letters: Dear Greenpeace
Read and write letters inspired by Simon James’s Dear Greenpeace and Hamilton's Group Reader, Boris and Sid Meet a Shark. Explore sentence punctuation and extension.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Read, discuss and apply letter-writing conventions
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James
Unit 2 SPAG: Sentence building and punctuation
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James
Presentation
Grammar PowerPoint for Unit 2: Punctuation
Unit 3 Comprehension: Reading and writing animal encounter letters
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
Group Readers
Boris and Sid meet a shark
An account of a short holiday in which these two child-like characters meet a variety of weird and wonderful sea creatures. This very simple and pleasing text can be used alongside many non-fiction texts.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James
Group Reader
Boris and Sid meet a Shark by Ruth Merttens
Unit 4 SPAG: Sentence building: extending ideas using because
(suggested as 3 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James
Unit 5 Composition: Write letters in the style of Dear Greenpeace
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Dear Greenpeace by Simon James
Websites
World Wildlife Fund from worldwildlife.org
Binding single pages together from www.wikihow.com