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
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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
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Journeys Poems
Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport
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Special Places Poems
Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world