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Year 1

'Anna Hibiscus' Song': reading and writing

10 lessons

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  • Developing fiction writing
  • Fiction reading spine
  • Modern literature strand 1: identity, belonging and community

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In this unit, pupils explore the characters, setting and plot in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'. They apply their learning of adjectives to writing about characters and settings. In scaffolded writing tasks, they use adverbs to describe characters' actions, leading to writing a letter about their family.

This unit builds on pupils' understanding of adjectives and nouns, teaching them to create expanded noun phrases with commas to describe characters and settings. Pupils will carefully choose adjectives to write expanded noun phrases and then learn how to join two ideas using 'and'. They will also learn that we can use adverbs to describe verbs. This will prepare pupils for the next unit, 'Looking after Pets', where they will use a comma to write a list of nouns and continue to practise joining two ideas together using 'and'.

  1. Character, setting and plot in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  2. The theme of happiness in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  3. Thinking from the character's perspective in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  4. Describing the setting in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  5. Writing descriptive sentences about the setting in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  6. Comparing adjectives and adverbs to show emotion
  7. Character description of a family member
  8. Writing the beginning of a letter: 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  9. Writing the middle of a letter: 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
  10. Writing the end of a letter: 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'
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