'The Three Little Pigs': reading and writing
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of traditional tales from 'The Magic Porridge Pot'. In this unit, pupils are introduced to another traditional tale, and explore different ways of building and structuring a simple story. This unit prepares pupils for their next traditional tale unit, 'Jack and the Beanstalk', where they will practise reading and writing another traditional tale.
Prior knowledge requirements
- 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 and start to write compound sentences.
- 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.
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' understanding of traditional tales from 'The Magic Porridge Pot'. In this unit, pupils are introduced to another traditional tale, and explore different ways of building and structuring a simple story. This unit prepares pupils for their next traditional tale unit, 'Jack and the Beanstalk', where they will practise reading and writing another traditional tale.
Prior knowledge requirements
- 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 and start to write compound sentences.
- 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.
Reading, writing & oracy
'The Three Little Pigs': reading and writing
In this unit, pupils read and respond to the traditional tale 'The Three Little Pigs'. Pupils first read the story, and look at it from different perspectives, before then writing their own version of the story.
8 lessons in unit
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