Unit C – Unusual Pets

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to plan and write a narrative story about keeping an unusual animal as a pet based on reading, learn spellings of words with the /i:/ sound spelt ey and write descriptive sentences using expanded noun phrases.

Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet

Lesson One : Word Groups

Select and group matching sets of words with the same final phoneme sound including words with the /i:/ sound spelt ey

Lesson Two : Pet Sentences

Select and list descriptive adjectives that can be used to create expanded noun phrases to use in sentences describing animals that could be kept as pets by a family

Lesson Three : Pet Lists

Collect and record sets of vocabulary words that can be used to describe in sentences about how to clean, feed and exercise an unusual animal kept as a pet by a family

Lesson Four : Story Plans

Role-play and record some of the narrative events that might happen in a story about a wild animal that might be kept as a pet by a family

Lesson Five : Pet Story

Compose and publish a narrative story with a familiar setting to show some of the problems that an unusual animal might make for a family to solve

  • Word Matching

    Word Matching

    Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters

  • Family Toys

    Family Toys

    Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time

  • Subtraction Digits

    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

  • Family Experiences

    Family Experiences

    Practise composing and presenting some example stories with familiar settings to illustrate things that might be experienced by a family