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English

Year 1 2024-25

Autumn term

Using a story map to learn the opening of Oliver Jeffers’, Lost and Found.

2023-2024

Autumn Term 1

Autumn Term 2

Repeating patterns- Room on the Broom

Spring Term 1

Spring Term 2

Summer Term 1

Spring 2 - Stories with a familiar setting

Spring 2023 - Traditional Tales

Autumn 2022 - Stories with repeating patterns

Autumn 2022 - Traditional Poems - A sailor went to sea

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Autumn 2022 - Instructions

Autumn 2022 - Stories from the same author - Oliver Jeffers

Stories from other Cultures

Percy the Park Keeper

Retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk

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Traditional Tales

Instructions - Shared Write

Writing and following instructions to make a Jam Sandwich

Traditional Rhymes

 

We have been looking at some traditional poems this week. 

We have put some actions to some of them and discussed some of the tricky words. 

A sailor went to sea sea sea

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Stories by the same author - Oliver Jeffers

 

We have been using stories by author Oliver Jeffers in our English and our whole class guided reading sessions during Autumn 1. 

We have had a very important visitor from the South Pole - a penguin called Snowy, who we quickly realised was from the story Lost and Found. 

 

We have done lots of character descriptions for the main characters in the story Lost and Found using Role on the Wall. We have read the story Lost and Found and also watched the short movie.

From this, we then were able to sequence the story in order and talk about what was happening in each picture, in order.

 

We split the pictures up into the beginning, middle and end of the story and then used Talk for Writing to aid in our orally retelling of the Lost and Found story. We put actions to words to help us. 

 

In Guided Reading sessions, we looked at other books that were written by Oliver Jeffers and discussed the similarities and the differences and have added our thoughts and opinions to our Whole Class Guided Reading Floor Book.