Spooky and Strange | Hamilton Brookes

Teach the children, then some may enjoy Exploring and Playing while you lead Group Learning.

UNIT PLANS

Spooky Stuff (suggested as 5 days)

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Active Learning

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Group Learning

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Group Learning

Exploring and Playing

Straw skeletons
Storytellers
Create a creature
Creature concert

Activity Cards

You Will Need

Essential Texts
Funnybones by Allan Ahlberg & Janet Ahlberg
Knock Knock Who’s There? by Sally Grindley

Weblinks
The Skeleton Dance song from youtube.com

Phonics: Code-Breakers

Code-Breakers is a synthetic phonics programme that teaches phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences (PGCs) in a systematic, child-friendly fashion.

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SPaG Presentations

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. Alternatively, these presentations can be used as stand-alone whiteboard sessions. Try your year group below.

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Group Readers

Group Readers are charmingly illustrated short books written to facilitate reading and comprehension progression from Reception right through to Year 6.

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