Year 1

Anansi and Tiger

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    In this lesson, we will listen to the story 'Anansi and Tiger' and think about the characters and main plot points in a plot matrix.
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    In this lesson, we will create a story map and 'step' the story of 'Anansi and Tiger'.
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    In this lesson, we will use our action writing toolkit to role-play as the different animal characters and explore what happens to them.
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    In this lesson, we will learn how to use the conjunction 'and' to join two sentences or clauses together.
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    In this lesson, we will practise our reading strategies as well as learning how to summarise the events of the story.
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    In this lesson, we will 'box up' our story of 'Anansi and Tiger', focusing on the action taking place at different points in the story.
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    In this lesson, we will read a section of our 'Anansi and Tiger' story as a writer, thinking of how the action is clearly described, using our writing toolkit, and hone in on the verbs, or 'doing words' that tell us what is happening.
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    In this lesson, we will use everything we have learned from the action writing toolkit to start writing. We will put sentences in order. Then we will write about the actions Anansi takes against Tiger. Lastly, we will edit our work by swapping, adding and deleting words.
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    In this lesson, we will use everything we have learned from the action writing toolkit to write about the actions Anansi takes against the Queen Bee. We will practise adding adjectives to sentences and editing sentences.
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    In this lesson, we will use everything we have learned from the action writing toolkit to write about the actions Anansi takes against Python.
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