Children need something to talk about, something to write about and someone to write to. The following Literacy units provide teachers with ideas and resources to inspire young readers and writers. The Literacy units often begin with an exciting, interesting or unusual experience – giving the children a ‘real-life’ experience, something to write about.
We also suggest high quality texts, either books, poems or films that will give the children something to talk about, as well as provide good models of text coherence, sentence structure and vocabulary. All the units are planned around the teaching sequence for writing and provide opportunities for the effective writing pedagogies of oral rehearsal and Shared writing; Teacher modelling, Teacher scribing and supported composition.
Teachers may also wish to attend a workshop being run on creating effective units – please see course flier for further details. Inspired teachers inspiring children – courses for Spring term 2015
Monster Bed – Y1 Stories with Patterned language
The Dragon Machine – Y1 Instructions
Monkey See, Monkey Do – Y1 Familiar settings
Lost and Found – Y2 Stories and settings
Man on the moon – Y2 Narrative
Alien Spotter’s Guide – Y2 Non-fiction
Polar Bears – Y2 Non-chronological reports
Meerkat Mail – Y2 stories by the same author
Comparing picture books – Y3 Authors and letters
The Great Paper Caper – Y3 Playscripts
Rainforest unit – Y3 Information texts
The Dragon Slayer – Y4 Stories with issues/dilemmas
Cracking inventions – Y4 Explanations
Hoverbike – Y4 Stories in imaginary worlds
World War 2 – Y5 Dramatic conventions
FArTHER – Y5 Significant children’s authors
Tadeo Jones – Y5 Adventure Narrative
The Jungle Book – Y5 Older fiction
Houdini Box – Y6 Biography and Autobiography
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick – Y6 Narrative
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