Unit C – Weather Postcards
This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on family holidays, practise adding the suffix ed to word roots to indicate the past tense in sentences and investigate punctuation to use for statements and questions.
Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays
Lesson One : Word Changes
Practise adding the suffix ed to different word roots with no changes to the spelling to make some special words that can be used to describe family holiday events and experiences
Lesson Two : Holiday Places
Practise writing and punctuating statements and questions to name and describe some of the different places that could be visited on a family holiday
Lesson Three : Holiday Sentences
Investigate and record how to use the suffix ed to convert example sentences from the present to the past tense to describe different holiday events and experiences
Lesson Four : Holiday Lists
Select and record lists of some of the special vocabulary words that could be used to locate and describe a family visit to a holiday location in the world
Lesson Five : Holiday Postcard
Explain and model how to compose a written recount to use on a postcard describing events that might be experienced on a family holiday to a specific location in the world
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Garden Flowers
Identify and record how to use pictograms to organise and present information about some of the special flowers growing in a family garden
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Clock Minutes
Read, match and record times to five minutes using analog and digital clock faces that can identify start times for different events and experiences
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Springtime Sentences
Explain and model how to compose and punctuate sentences using capital letters and full stops correctly to describe spring events and experiences
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Family Visit
Read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information