Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 1/2 Summer Information Texts
Big, Bad and Scary!
Develop familiarity of non-fiction texts by exploring Crazy About Cats and answering comprehension questions. Find out about wild animals and enjoy writing a class information book on big, bad and scary animals. Discover how to use adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enhance writing.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Exploring the key features of information texts
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Crazy About Cats by Owen Davey
Unit 2 SPaG: Descriptive writing using expanded noun phrases
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Weblinks
The Animal Kingdom from bbc.co.uk
Animals to avoid in Australia from bbc.co.uk
What do animals need to survive? from bbc.co.uk
Unit 3 SPaG: Using commas to separate items in lists
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
Group Readers
The Scariest Baddie Ever
This is a simple guessing game which draws on many traditional tales for its humour. Children will be kept guessing throughout the book and will recognise many references to stories they know and 'baddie' creatures. The spectacular illustrations add to the tension and many children will not have guessed the baddy until the last page!
You Will Need
Hamilton Group Reader
The Scariest Baddie Ever by Ruth Merttens and Philippa Danvers
Unit 4 Composition: writing information pages for a class ‘big book’ on big, bad and scary creatures
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
Group Readers
The Scariest Baddie Ever
This is a simple guessing game which draws on many traditional tales for its humour. Children will be kept guessing throughout the book and will recognise many references to stories they know and 'baddie' creatures. The spectacular illustrations add to the tension and many children will not have guessed the baddy until the last page!
You Will Need
Essential Text
Crazy About Cats by Owen Davey
Hamilton Group Reader
The Scariest Baddie Ever by Ruth Merttens and Philippa Danvers, Hamilton Group Reader