Unit A – Fantastic Foxes
This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore the narrative structure of a story by a significant children’s author with animal characters, investigate spellings of words with dge endings and use apostrophes for missing letters in contractions based on The Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.
Explore the narrative structure and sequence of events in a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters
Lesson One : Word Endings
Investigate and record the spelling and meaning of different words with the dge ending to use when describing the actions of characters from an adventure story
Lesson Two : Contractions Match
Identify, match and record pairs of words that can be contracted together using apostrophes to use when describing events in a story about a animals
Lesson Three : Fox Contractions
Practise writing a range of different sentences about some of the events that occurred in a narrative story about foxes using words that are contractions
Lesson Four : Great Feast
Select and compose speech bubbles to record what different characters might have said about one of the narrative events in an adventure story
Lesson Five : Book Review
Select and write a review for the class book corner recommending a narrative story to another reader to outline reasons as to why it should be read and enjoyed
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Counting Back
Practise using the number technique of counting back to solve and complete a range of abstract and contextual subtraction calculations
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Mother Nature
Explore how mother nature can provide nourishment, protection and support to all living things in different habitats and environments
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Digraphs Word Sums
Investigate the spellings and meanings of different sets of words with a range of initial consonant digraphs
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Van Gogh
Investigate and replicate the work and painting style of a famous artist from the past by producing a matching landscape of the school building