'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' learning of narrative writing in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. Pupils apply their knowledge of nouns and adjectives to the writing of descriptive sentences. They learn about verbs, selecting appropriate verbs to show characters' actions, and they write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end. To support their use of verbs, pupils orally rehearse their sentences in different ways before writing. This prepares pupils for the introduction to expanded noun phrases and the joining of two simple sentences in the next unit, 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Starting to use capital letters and full stops at the start and end of each sentence.
- Exposure to and opportunities to listen and respond to a range of traditional tales.
- Know that traditional tales have a beginning, middle and end.
- Know that some traditional tales have magical aspects.
- 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.
- Ability to listen and respond to short stories that are read to them.
- Opportunities to sequence, retell and act out short stories.
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' learning of narrative writing in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. Pupils apply their knowledge of nouns and adjectives to the writing of descriptive sentences. They learn about verbs, selecting appropriate verbs to show characters' actions, and they write a narrative with a beginning, middle and end. To support their use of verbs, pupils orally rehearse their sentences in different ways before writing. This prepares pupils for the introduction to expanded noun phrases and the joining of two simple sentences in the next unit, 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Starting to use capital letters and full stops at the start and end of each sentence.
- Exposure to and opportunities to listen and respond to a range of traditional tales.
- Know that traditional tales have a beginning, middle and end.
- Know that some traditional tales have magical aspects.
- 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.
- Ability to listen and respond to short stories that are read to them.
- Opportunities to sequence, retell and act out short stories.
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing
In this unit, pupils explore magical elements of fairy tales in 'The Magic Porridge Pot'. They sequence the events using a story mountain and add sequencing language and descriptions to orally retell the story. Pupils also apply their understanding of verbs and adjectives to their narrative writing.
8 lessons in unit
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