Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 1/2 Summer Stories on a Theme
Feelings
Enjoy reading Gustavo the Shy Ghost and What if.....? Discuss the characters' feelings and create atmospheric descriptions. Revise past and present tense and learn about progressive form. Share Arlo the Lion who Couldn't Sleep; use story maps to plan your own version of this story including a new character.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Read and respond to stories about feelings
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
What if?... by Anthony Browne
Gustavo the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z Drago
Weblinks
What’s the Big Idea: Episode 3. What’s a Friend? from youtube.com
Unit 2 SPaG: the past tense – simple and progressive forms
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
Arlo, the Lion who Couldn’t Sleep by Catherine Raynor
Unit 3 SPaG: Understanding and using the prefix ‘un’
(suggested as 2 days)
Unit 4 Composition: Story Writing
(suggested as 5 days)
