Characters in 'A Superhero Like You'

English

Exploring the idea of a superhero and predicting

The theme of community 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

What is the main setting in the story "A Superhero Like You"?

Which of these are characters in the story?

Choose a word to describe how Lily feels when she is a scientist. 

Choose a word to describe how Lily feels when she is a carer. 

Match the job to what or who it helps in the story.

Which jobs require you to drive or use transport?

Complete the sentence. The __________ in the story "A Superhero Like You" is called Lily.

Which words could be used to describe superheroes?

Lily wakes up and shares her idea with her mummy.

Lily imagines she is working in lots of different jobs.

Lily describes herself and her mummy as a superhero.

Which jobs does Lily imagine herself doing?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Characters in 'A Superhero Like You'

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.