Year 1, Term Spring 2

WALT

Tues

WALT share our

holiday news

Weds

D
A
Y
Mon

Literacy Plan
Unit Fiction Stories from other Cultures
Whole-Class
Shared Session

Main
Activities each day

Plenary

INSET DAY

WALT retell
stories using
story language
and organising
events in
sequence.

Ch to share their holiday news with talk

partner. Shared write some of my holiday
news.
Identify the
main
events/characte
rs in stories, and
find specific
information in
simple texts.

Read the story of Handas surprise PPT.

Discuss where story is set, drawing on
information in the illustrations. (NB. Be
sure to challenge any suggestion that we
can tell simply from colour/race of chn in
the story. There are many English citizens
of African descent who look like this!).
Encourage chn to look beyond the
characters and at the actual setting.

Ch to write their holiday news. Include

time connectives.

WALT
Simple
sentences
animals and
fruit

Share some
examples of super
work.
Look at the end
papers of the
animals pictured in
order. Name each
animal. Can chn
recall which fruit
each animal took?

In 2 groups HK and NG ch to make a

circle and large sugar paper in the
middle. Taste one fruit at a time and
brainstorm words to describe
colour/taste etc.

Share with the

class some of the
super adjectives ch
used to describe
the fruit

HA

MA

Ch to stick pictures
of animal &
corresponding fruit.
Can they think of
words to describe
the fruit?

LA

Thurs

T4W Actions to story

WALT Use
adjectives to
describe

I can use an
adjective to
describe

Remind ch of what an adjective is. Explain

that they will be looking at and tasting the
fruits in the story and give adjectives to
describe them.

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Tues
Weds
Thurs

WALT identify
the main events
in a story

WALT identify
the main events
in a story
Writing targets

WALT identify
the main events
in a story
Writing targets

Children can
Re-tell the story using PPT and T4W.
identify the main Model to the children how to create a
events in a story, story map with notes.
sequencing them
in chronological
order.

Re-tell the story using PPT and T4W.

Children can
Model thinking of a sentence to match
identify the main the picture, counting out the words and
events in a story, sounding them out for a shared write.
sequencing them (see resources)
in chronological
order.
Children can
identify the main
events in a story,
sequencing them
in chronological
order.

Re-tell the story using PPT and T4W.

Model thinking of a sentence to match
the picture, counting out the words and
sounding them out for a shared write.
(see resources)

Independent writing write the story

of Handas surprise

Children to create a story map for

Handas Surprise
L.A to have pictures to cut and stick
to help them remember the key
moments of the story.

HA

MA

Encourage the
children to retell
the story verbally,
in order using their
story maps.

LA

Children
order
pictures and
write a
sentence
underneath.
HA

Children
order
pictures and
write a
sentence
underneath.
MA

Children
order
pictures and
write a
sentence
underneath.
LA

Children
order
pictures and
write a
sentence
underneath.

Children
order
pictures and
write a
sentence
underneath.

Children
order
pictures and
write a
sentence
underneath.
Guided

Share some super

sentences under
the visualizer.
Who has achieved
WILF and their
own writing
targets?
Share some super
sentences under
the visualizer.
Who has achieved
WILF and their
own writing
targets?

Mon
Tues. & Weds
Thurs

I can change
characters in a
story

I can write my
own version of
Handas
Surprise.

Children to plan
making brief
notes of main
events and
organising into a
story map

Children can
write their own
version of a
story, using a
series of
complete
sentences
organised into
chronological
order.

Demonstrate how to create a story plan

changing the characters and fruits in
the story to create our own Surprise
stories.
Show my example on the IWB Miss
Goodings Surprise and model how the ch
can change it. Miss Gooding put 3 fruits
in her basket.

Ch to create
a new story
map with the
characters,
fruits and
animals.

Demonstrate how write your own version of

the story.
Recap daily on what you expect to see in
the childrens writing make a marking
criteria together which will be recapped on
Thursday before writing continues.

Front cover, 5 pages (beginning with fruits

in basket, then 3 different fruits, and then
ending) and blurb. Display stories.

Independent writing

Create new
story map
with new
characters,
fruits and
animals

LA
Children to
write their
own version of
Handas
suprise

Create new
story map
with new
characters,
fruits and
animals
guided

MA
Children to
write their
own version
of Handas
suprise

Ask the children

to tell each other
what changes they
have decided to
make for their
story.

HA
Children to
write their
own version
of Handas
suprise

Ask the
children to
read their
stories and ask
the rest of the
class to pick
out the
difference the
child has made.