Planning and Activities
Fiction
English Year 2 Summer Fantasy
Quest Stories
Explore quest stories through Lost and Found and The Way Back Home, by Oliver Jeffers. Study sentence types and experiment with tense. Write and perform your own quest stories.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Introduction to the features of quest stories
(suggested as 4 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
Unit 2 SPAG: Present and past progressive verb forms
(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
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
SPAG PDF: Hamilton Progressive Verb Forms - Present and Past (see resources)
This enables teachers to ensure that children are taught to identify present and past progressive verb forms.
Unit 3 Comprehension: Explore plot, settings and language features
(suggested as 4 days)
Planning and Activities
Group Readers
The Quest
A simple fantasy narrative told in the form of a quest. It is ideal for children whose comprehension outruns their ability to decode as it draws on iconic characters such as superheroes which are culturally relevant to children and engage their attention.
You Will Need
Essential Text
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers
Group Reader
The Quest by Ruth Merttens
Unit 4 SPAG: Sentence forms: statements, questions, exclamations, commands
(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
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers
Unit 5 Composition: Write a quest story
(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
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers