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Year 1

'Paddington': reading and writing

10 lessons

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  • Developing fiction writing
  • Fiction reading spine
  • Modern literature strand 1: identity, belonging and community
  • Reading and writing texts that inform
  • Traditional tales

  1. Characters, setting and plot in 'Paddington'
  2. Comparing 'Coming to England' to 'Paddington'
  3. Writing facts about Floella Benjamin
  4. The theme of identity
  5. Thinking from Paddington and Floella Benjamin's perspectives
  6. Comparing emotions and feelings in 'Paddington'
  7. Writing a character description of Paddington
  8. Describing the setting of 'Paddington'
  9. Writing a postcard from Paddington listing places and feelings
  10. Writing a postcard with descriptions and questions

  • Understand that narratives have a beginning, middle and end.
  • Uses adjectives to describe nouns.
  • Ability to join two ideas using 'and'.
  • Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
  • Ability to read and write some common exception words.
  • Compose simple sentences by saying out loud what they are going to write and re-reading back to check it makes sense,
  • 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 by adding -ed to verbs.
  • Uses phonics as the route to spelling through segmenting and using grapheme phoneme correspondences.
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