Lesson Planning
Non-fiction
English Year 1/2 Summer Information Texts
Interviews
Using An Interview with a Tiger, learn more about a range of animals, find information, make notes and create fact files. Revise sentence types and practise writing descriptively before writing a class information book.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Reading and writing interviews
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text:
Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East
Unit 2 SPaG: Punctuation in different types of sentence
(suggested as 3 days)
Unit 3 SPaG: Adjectives and qualifying adverbs in descriptive writing
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
Group Readers
Boris and Sid find a Tiger
Boris and Sid find a Tiger, by Ruth Merttens, gives a nice twist to familiar animals which turn up in children’s lives. Useful to read alongside information texts on animals as well as fiction, this story is for those who are beginning to decode slightly harder words.
You Will Need
Essential Texts:
Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East
Boris and Sid Find a Tiger by Ruth Merttens and Anne Holm Petersen Hamilton Group Reader
Unit 4 Composition: writing pages for class information books on birds
(suggested as 5 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Text:
Interview with a Tiger and Other Clawed Beasts Too by Andy Seed and Nick East
Interview with a Shark and other Ocean Giants Too by Andy Seed and Nick East