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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Word Matching
Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters
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Family Toys
Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time
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Subtraction Digits
Model and illustrate how to subtract pairs of single digit numbers within ten using concrete equipment and diagrams to support the subtraction calculations
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Family Experiences
Practise composing and presenting some example stories with familiar settings to illustrate things that might be experienced by a family