KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of story writing fom the Year 2 unit ''Lucky Dip': narrative writing'. Here, pupils write their own version of two sections of this more sophisticated narrative: the opening and the build-up. Focused teaching centres around how to set a scene and how to increase tension, set within key Year 3 level sentence structures. Pupils are also expected to write more sentences per paragraph than in Year 2 narrative writing units. This unit prepares pupils for further narrative writing in the Year 3 unit 'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing'.

1. Engaging with 'The BFG'
2. Engaging with the opening chapter of 'The BFG'
3. Planning the opening of 'The BFG' (part one)
4. Writing the opening of 'The BFG' (part one)
5. Planning the opening of 'The BFG' (part two)
6. Writing the opening of 'The BFG' (part two)
7. Planning the build-up of 'The BFG' (part one)
8. Writing the build-up of 'The BFG' (part one)
9. Planning the build-up of 'The BFG' (part two)
10. Writing the build-up of ‘The BFG’ (part two)
11. Peer editing a narrative scene based on 'The BFG'
12. Publishing a narrative based on 'The BFG'