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

  • Unusual Pets

    Unusual Pets

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

  • Unusual Pet Story

    Unusual 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

  • Pet Story Plans

    Pet 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

  • Pet Lists

    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