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Learning Sequence – Unit Overview
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Suitcase and footprints arrive in the classroom! Predict what Sunny might do next. Discuss Sunny’s visit to Uncle Bob. Identify clues to
Children act as detectives and look for clues to Share ideas about what Sunny might take/ has show how Sunny is feeling. Record responses.
find out who it might be from. taken in his suitcase. Records response. Complete table.
Look at front cover. Make prediction about Compare to what children would take. Record in Read pages 11-12. Discuss postcard and evidence
what story might be about and what it reminds table. for what it is like there. Complete map.
the children of. Record responses. Discuss how Sunny’s mum might feel. Identify author’s use of language for meaning
Read pages 1 and 2. Discuss why the words Share ideas. ‘itchy feet’.
VERY and TOO are in capitals. Use single Discuss Sunny’s mum writing a wanted poster/ fact Before reading postcard- predict what Sunny might
bubble to find evidence in picture to support file for Sunny. be thinking at Mildred and Frank’s. What questions
their reasoning. Identify different features of Sunny’s appearance. might he be asking himself?
Read pages 3-4. Record on picture. Read postcard from Mildred and Frank’s. Were the
Discuss what we find out about meerkat Read non-fiction Meerkat text to understand why children’s predictions right?
families. Record response. these features are suited to a meerkat. Add/ Share opinions on how they would feel at Mildred
Discuss how Sunny feels about the family. annotate new research to meerkat picture. and Frank’s.
Record feelings for Sunny on mind map. Share examples of fact files. Create a class success
Practise joining ideas with and. criteria for features.
Practise using because to explain. Refer back to single bubble and clues for habitat
Record in complete and accurate sentences. and family.
Evaluate and proof read with prompts. Plan a fact file for Sunny.
Write a fact file (wanted poster) for Sunny the
Meerkat.
Evaluate and proof read using prompts.
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