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Based around the book ‘Stick Man’ by Julia Donaldson, this 8 lesson English Unit of Work covers Year 1 National Curriculum Objectives for S & L, Reading, Grammar and Spelling and Composition. The unit includes editable planning documents, worksheets, writing frames, displays and much more.  End of unit Writing: Writing a ‘thank you’ letter to Santa.

Zip file includes:

8 Detailed Lesson Plans (Microsoft Word)
Classroom Display Vocabulary (PDF)
Exclamation Worksheets (PDF)
Exclamation Presentation (PDF)
Letter from Santa (PDF)
Letter Writing Frame (PDF)
Making Inferences Worksheets (PDF)
Planning a letter from Stick Man sheet (PDF)
Sequence the story B&W (PDF)
Sequence the story colour (PDF)
Stick Man family display image (PDF)
Stick Man classroom display banner (PDF)
Stick Man Large Colour Storyboard (PDF)
Stick Man large display image (PDF)
Stick Man large storyboard B&W (PDF)
What happens next prediction worksheet (PDF)

Unit overview:

In this unit, children will be ‘hooked’ in with a special delivery to class, including the book ‘Stick Man’ by Julia Donaldson. After exploring the delivery, they will proceed to create their own Stick people. During shared reading lessons, children will be encouraged to identify the rhyming words within the story and join in with predictable phrases. When reading, children will become familiar with reading words with apostrophes to show contraction.  Next, they will be taught to make simple predictions about what might happen next in the story.  Children will then begin to make inferences about how Stick Man might be feeling at different points within the story, using clues within the text to support them. Once the children are familiar with the story, they will use freeze frames and storyboards to sequence the story, retelling the main events within the story. The class will then explore the text to discover how exclamation marks are used effectively. Following this, the class will receive a letter delivered by Santa Claus! Children will unpick this letter, identifying the main features. They will then plan out their own ideas to write a ‘Thank you’ letter to Santa, from the Stick Man.

Reading Objectives:

• Recognising and joining in with predictable phrases.
• Make simple predictions.
• Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
• Becoming very familiar with key stories, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics.
• Read words with contractions [for example, I’m, I’ll, we’ll],

Speaking and Listening Objectives:

• Participate in performances and roleplay.

Grammar Objectives:

• Introduction to exclamation marks to demarcate sentences.
• Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun.
• Read words with contractions [for example, I’m, I’ll, we’ll],

Writing Objectives:

• Saying out loud what they are going to write about.
• Composing a sentence orally before writing it.
• Sequencing sentences to form short narratives.