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Lesson plan outlines - Year 2
Term 1
Bold the Bad
Range:- Stories with familiar settings
Aims:
- to introduce a story with a setting familiar to many children, and to discuss the children's understandings of and predictions about this story;
- to get the class to focus on the three key words, prowling, growling and yowling, and to talk about how these words are constructed and what they mean within the story.
Extract from Bold the Bad by Ruth Merttens, published by the Hamilton Reading Project
Tasty Fish
Range:- Poems with familiar settings
Aims:
- to introduce a poem with a familiar setting and use it as a context for the discussion and use of a variety of punctuation device.
Extract from 'Beep Goes My Belly Button' compiled by John Foster, published by Oxford University Press
Pancakes
Range:- Poems with familiar settings
Aims:
- to read and discuss a set of simple instructions, highlighting the structural features of this text;
- to investigate homophones: words with the same sound but different spellings.
'Pancakes', from "Celebration Cook Book" by Nicola Tuxworth, published by Oxford University Press
Term 2
Weather
Range:- Alphabetically ordered texts
Aims:
- to introduce the use of an alphabetically ordered reference text and how to find information in such a text by the use of keywords;
- to explore the use of captions and labels in information texts.
Rapunzel
Range:
Aims:
- to engage the children in the reading of a traditional story and to get them involved in predicting events and endings;
- to introduce the idea of speech marks and their function in indicating dialogue.
Rain Cycle
Range:
Aims:
- to introduce the use of a simple diagram to explain a process and to compare this diagram with a written explanation of the same process.
Extract from Make your own Weather Station by Terry Jennings, published by Oxford University Press.
Goldilocks
Range:
Aims:
- to introduce a traditional story, read this together and engage the children in making predictions about the story on the basis of what they read;
- to read an extract from the story in which words have been changed and to help the children suggest ways of making this extract make sense.
Extract from Weather Encyclopedia, by Peter Riley, published by Oxford University Press
Term 3
Alliteration
Range:
Aims:
- to introduce one form of humorous verse and to identify the key element of this - alliteration;
- to develop pupils' abilities to predict words from initial phonemes and to use rhymes.
Castles
Range:- Non-chronological reports
Aims:
- to introduce the topic of castles and to direct a class discussion on some questions about this topic;
- to use a report about castles to find answers to these questions and to demonstrate how to make simple notes from this report;
- to help pupils spell words with common suffixes.
Frogs and Toads
Range:- Information books, including non-chronological reports
Aims:
- to introduce the idea of a non-chronological report and simple ways of noting down information from it;
- to use the structure of the report read as a model from which some children can compose their own reports about a different topic;
- to introduce the use of commas to separate items in a list.
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