the name or label given to a piece of writing, such as a book, story, or poem, often representing its main idea or theme

the person responsible for crafting the words that make up a text

making a guess using what we already know

when authors create made up stories with characters, places and adventures which did not happen in real life

Exploring the idea of a superhero and predicting

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The theme of community in 'A Superhero Like You'

Characters in 'A Superhero Like You'

Writing captions about people who help us

Introducing adjectives to describe people who help us

Writing simple sentences about people who help us

Describing yourself

Writing about your future job

In 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff', pupils will apply their simple sentence writing into a narrative form, retelling a well known traditional tale.

In the EYFS, pupils will have had lots of opportunities to listen, engage with and respond to a range of texts and will have likely been discovered to the theme of People who help us’. In this unit, pupils will build on this within the context of a rich text.’

In this unit, pupils engage with the characters, setting, and plot of 'A Superhero Like You'. Their writing focuses on people who help us, progressing in small steps. They begin by introducing nouns through one-word captions and advance to writing simple sentences that include an adjective.

'A Superhero Like You': reading and writing

someone who draws the illustrations for a book.

someone who draws the pictures for a book.

Complete the sentence. An illustrator is ...

the name of the person who writes the book

the name of the person who draws the illustrations

Match the part of a front cover to its definition.

Which of these is the name of the author of "The Gruffalo"?

Which of these are the same about most fictional superheroes?

Put the parts of a story into the order they usually go in.

Complete the sentence. The people or animals are the __________ in a story.

Which of these are characters in the story "Jack and the Beanstalk"?

Complete the sentence. The place that the story is in is called the ...

Which of these are settings in the story "Jack and the Beanstalk"?

Exploring the idea of a superhero and predicting

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