Introducing adjectives to describe people who help us

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Exploring the idea of a superhero and predicting

The theme of community in 'A Superhero Like You'

Characters in 'A Superhero Like You'

Writing captions about 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

Complete the sentence. An __________ describes a noun. 

a naming word of a person, place or thing

Finish this sentence: 'If we describe something, we ...'

Find the adjective in this sentence: 'The kind police officer helped the man.'

Which adjectives describe someone's personality?

Complete this definition: A noun is a naming word of people, places and __________.

Common nouns always need a capital letter.

Common nouns do not need to start with a capital letter.

Which statements are correct about common nouns?

Proper nouns always need a capital letter.

Proper nouns do not need to start with a capital letter.

Which statements are correct about proper nouns?

Identify the noun in this phrase: 'the brave doctor'

Identify the noun in this sentence: 'the vet was kind'.

Starter Quiz

Complete this definition: A noun is a naming word of people, places and __________.