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Lesson plan outlines - Year 1
Term 1
Late Late
Range:- Rhymes with predictable and repetitive patterns
Aims:
- to read a rhyme with a predictable pattern, and to use this pattern as a model for the pupils' own writing;
- to focus on the importance of capital letters and their use in beginning sentences and starting names.
'Bold the Bad' by Ruth Merttens, published by the Hamilton Reading Project
Hamster
Range:- Rhymes with predictable and repetitive patterns
Aims:
- to introduce children to simple captions and labels;
- to give guided practice at reading words in captions and matching these to pictures of objects;
- to give some children the experience of writing a set of simple instructions by filling in missing words.
Extract from Keep your Hamster Happy by Mal Peet, photographs by Martin Sookas, published by Oxford University Press.
My School
Range:
Aims:
- to introduce a simple caption-based book and to use it as a basis for some writing of further captions;
- to introduce children to the use of full stops and capital letters to indicate sentences.
Extract from My School by Diana Bentley and Dee Reid published by Oxford University Press.
Term 2
The Building Site
Range:- Information books, including non-chronological reports
Aims:
- to introduce a non-chronological report and the information given about the contents of this by the title and cover illustration;
- to read this report and use its illustrations as a starting point for the writing of extended captions, each as a complete sentence.
Extracts from The Building Site by Diana Bentley and Dee Reid, published by Oxford University Press
Full of Beans
Range:
Aims:
- to introduce a simple information text and compare this with a fictional story on a similar topic;
- to explore some of the differences between fiction and non-fiction;
- to establish the use of capital letters for names and sentence beginnings.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Range:
Aims:
- to introduce a traditional story and the concept of characters in stories;
- to explore some of the qualities of characters in a story;
- to consolidate the use of full stops to demarcate sentences.
Term 3
Covers and Contents
Range:
Aims:
- to consider how different non-fiction books can be used to find answers to questions;
- to consider how the contents page can be used to find where information is located within a book.
Book Covers
Range:
Aims:
- to explore the front cover and blurb of an unfamiliar text to predict its content.
- to consider the language conventions of the covers of novels.
Cover of Pirate Adventure, by Roderick Hunt, published by Oxford University Press
Cover of Gran, by Roderick Hunt, published by Oxford University Press
The Farm
Range:
Aims:
- to explore an ordered sequence of events;
- to follow instructions relating to a plan.
Familiar Stories
Range:
Aims:
- to explore story telling, both orally and in print.
Image from Goldilocks and The Three Bears by Val Biro, published by Oxford University Press.
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