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Year Group: 1 Core Text: Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett Topic Links: Geography– identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United
Spring 1 Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the
Equator and the North and South Poles
Unit Written Outcomes: Fact File Possible Application: Sentence Writing opportunities
Postcard
Retell
Reading Focus: Core text
Non-fiction books Africa, Kalahari Desert, Meerkats
Spoken Language Reading Writing - Composition Writing -Grammar and Vocabulary
Objectives Objectives Objectives Objectives
Give an opinion with a Use prior knowledge to understand texts. Talk about ideas for writing. Know what a sentence is when I am speaking.
reason. Use picture clues to support understanding. Know what to write about. Notice sentence demarcation in reading.
Listen to others’ opinions. Use picture clues to deepen understanding. Choose one idea for a sentence. Know that a sentence needs a capital letter.
Use Standard English to Identify unfamiliar words and ask about meaning. Say the sentence aloud. Write sentences with capital letters and full stops.
give an opinion. Use the context to make informed guesses about the Check that the sentence makes sense. Know that there are different types of sentences.
Recite/perform own meaning of unfamiliar words. Hold the sentence in your head. Hear the difference between a question and a statement.
compositions. Discuss the meaning of unfamiliar words. Write the sentence. Find questions in reading.
Identify the key events in a story. Read the sentence and check that it makes sense. Know that a question needs a question mark at the end.
Make predictions based on the events in the story. Check that the sentence starts with a capital letter Write question sentences with capital letters and question
Identify the characters in a story. and ends with the right end mark – full stop/question marks.
Recognise a character’s feelings. mark. Use a capital for the personal pronoun I in writing.
Say why a character has a feeling. Decide on the next sentence which will say what Check that a capital has been used for the personal pronoun
Give an opinion about a character. happened next. I in writing.
Answer retrieval questions about the book. Use capital letters for special names of people, places and the
Use information from the story to support opinion. days of the week in writing.
Recognise key story language. Check that capital letters have been used for the special
Find key story language in stories read aloud or read names of people, places and the days of the week.
independently. Use the word and to join two words in a sentence.
Retell key stories orally using narrative language. Notice that the word and can join two sentences.
Say what they like or dislike about a book. Know that the word and can help to join ideas together.
Listen to others’ ideas about a book. Practise joining two sentences with and.
Say whether they agree or disagree with others’ ideas.
Know that there are different kinds of books.
Know the difference between a story book and an
information book
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