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Year 1

'Jack and the Beanstalk': reading and writing

9 lessons

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  • Developing fiction writing
  • Fiction reading spine
  • Traditional tales

  1. Exploring the genre of fairy tales in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  2. Character description of the giant in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  3. Character description of Jack in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  4. Thinking from different perspectives: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  5. Expressing an opinion about events and themes in ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’
  6. Retelling 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and using a story mountain
  7. Writing the beginning of a story, introducing character and setting: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  8. Writing the middle, building suspense: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
  9. Writing the end of the story, building suspense: 'Jack and the Beanstalk'

  • Understand the key features of a traditional tale.
  • Be familiar with some traditional story telling vocabulary.
  • Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
  • Ability to read and write some common exception words.
  • Write simple sentences.
  • Use adverbials of time at the start of a sentence.
  • Understand that an adjective describes a noun.
  • Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
  • Ability to write in the simple past tense.
  • Ability to retell a simple story with a beginning, middle and end.
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