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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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