Unit A – Handa’s Surprise
This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate the use of patterned language in a story from another culture, explore spellings of words with different vowel digraphs and practise punctuating and writing sentences using capital letters and full stops based on Handa’s Surprise, Eileen Browne.
Investigate and describe the use of patterned language and narrative events in a story from another culture
Lesson One : Fruit Basket
Identify, define and spell a selection of vocabulary words with the vowel digraph ir that can be used to describe different fruits
Lesson Two : Word Lists
Compile and illustrate lists of words from a narrative story set in a different culture that contain the ir and ur vowel phoneme digraphs
Lesson Three : Animal Sentences
Model how to add the correct punctuation and word spaces to complete sentences about different animals that might live wild in habitats around the world
Lesson Four : Animal Voices
Write a selection of different sentences to suggest what characters might have said in response to narrative events in a story from another culture
Lesson Five : Story Scenes
Practise using drama and role-play to illustrate one of the events that happened in a narrative story that is set in another culture
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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