Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 2/3 Autumn Stories on a Theme
Nature
Enjoy using The Night Gardener as inspiration for descriptive writing. Create instructions for planting seeds based on The Girl Who Planted Trees. Explore past and present tense and learn about contractions and possessive apostrophes. Share The Woman Who Turned Children Into Birds and write an imaginative recount of a day as a bird.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
Unit 1 Core: Reading and responding to stories about nature
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers
The Girl who Planted Trees by Caryl Hart
Weblinks
Timelapse video of the germination of a sunflower seed from youtube.com (optional)
Unit 2 SPaG: Verb tenses
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Texts
The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers
Weblinks
Grammarsaurus video on past and present progressive tenses from youtube.com
Unit 3 SPaG: Apostrophes for contractions and possession
(suggested as 2 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Texts
The Girl Who Planted Trees by Caryl Hart
Weblinks
Contractions Song from youtube.com
Unit 4 Core: Creative writing
(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
The Woman Who Turned Children into Birds by David Almond
Weblinks
RSPB A-Z of birds from www.rspb.org.uk