Lesson Planning
Fiction
English Year 2/3 Autumn Traditional Tales
Around the World
Explore features of traditional tales and answer comprehension questions using A Year Full of Stories and Starbird. Investigate different forms of the past tense and learn to wrote expanded noun phrases. Plan and write your own stories featuring a 'star creature' and different story locations.
The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.
Unit 1 Core: Traditional tales – immersion, comprehension and response
(suggested as 5 days)
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
A Year Full of Stories – 52 folk stories and legends from around the world by Angela McAllister. Illustrations by Christopher Corr
Starbird by Sharon King-Chai
Unit 2 SPaG: Verbs and tenses
(suggested as 3 days)
Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Text
A Year Full of Stories – 52 folk stories and legends from around the world by Angela McAllister. Illustrations by Christopher Corr.
Unit 3 SPaG: Expanded noun phrases and descriptive writing
(suggested as 2 days)
Unit 4 Composition: writing new versions of a familiar traditional tale
(suggested as 5 days)
