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Year 2 English Unit of Work based around the non-fiction book ‘The Great Fire of London’ by Sally Hewitt . 12 Lessons fully planned with objectives linked to the KS1 National Curriculum for Reading, S & L, Grammar and Writing Composition. Lessons and worksheets included. Final writing piece: Report Writing.

Unit Overview:

In this unit, children will be ‘hooked’ by watching ‘factual’ and ‘sensory’ video clips to introduce the British historical topic of The Great Fire of London. The class will the be introduced to the non-fiction text ‘The Great Fire of London’ by Sally Hewitt. Shared reading lessons will explore the layout of the text and identify the features. Children will then explore the questions within the text and begin to build their own answers based on their knowledge of ‘The Great Fire’. Following this, children will explore new vocabulary within the text and clarify word meanings. After reading the factual information about The Great Fire, children will then sequence the events from the text using a timeline. Children will then use the text to support their learning about grammar, including the four sentence types, subordinating conjunctions and the use of the past tense. This learning will then feed into the final writing piece: planning and writing their own report about ‘The Great Fire of London’.

Resources Included in the Zip File:

Editable Planning Documents (12 lessons Microsoft Word Document)
Answering Questions Worksheets (PDF)
Blank timeline (PDF)
Large Sequencing Events Cards (PDF)
Small Sequencing Events Cards (PDF)
Display Vocabulary (PDF)
Non-fiction Matching Game (PDF)
Features of Non-Fiction Texts (PDF)
Word Mat (PDF)
Past and Present Tense Presentation (PPTX)
Past and Present Tense Worksheets (PDF)
Planning a Report Template (PDF)
Publishing Writing Frame (PDF)
Sentence Types Presentation (PPTX)
Sentence Types Worksheets (PDF)
Sequencing Events Worksheet (PDF)
Sentence Types Worksheets (PDF)
Subordinating Clauses Worksheets (PDF)
Subordinating Conjunctions Presentation (PPTX)
The Great Fire of London Classroom Display Banner (PDF)
Word Web (PDF)