Unit A – Wild Things

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore narrative settings and predict events in a story set in a fantasy world, investigate the spellings of different words with tch endings and join pairs of sentences using the conjunction and based on Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.

Explore narrative settings and predict events in a story set in a fantasy world, investigate the spellings of different words with tch endings and practise joining pairs of sentences using the conjunction and

Lesson One : Word Endings
Practise building and spelling a range of different words with tch endings that can be used to describe some of the places that could be read about in a fantasy story

Lesson Two : Sentence Halves
Identify, explain and model how to link different pairs of sentence clauses related to a story with a fantasy setting using the conjunction and

Lesson Three : Sentence Joins
Select and model how to write example sentences about characters from a story with a fantasy setting using the conjunction and to link pairs of sentence clauses

Lesson Four : Story Places Lists
Select and record vocabulary word lists to match alternative settings that could have been used in a similar story that takes place in a fantasy location

Lesson Five : Wild Things Story
Produce a narrative storyboard with sentences and illustrations for a similar type of story that takes place in an alternative location with matching characters
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty