New Generation Literacy KS1 (yr 1)

This unit covers ‘Stories with familiar settings’ using two main themes: grandparents and siblings. Lessons and activities include:

• Oliver's vegetables
• Can you find Grandpa's vegetables?
• Journey home from Grandpa's
• Elephant dance
• Composing a story
• Writing the story
• New babies
• Story writing
• Charlie and Lola
• Brothers and sisters

This unit covers stories with predictable patterned language including some stories from other cultures. Lessons include:

• Hairy Maclary
• A She-goat and her children
• Mister Magnolia
• Mrs Magnolia
• Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby
• Brer Rabbit puppets
• Dramatising Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby
• A plan for Brer Rabbit
• A new Brer Rabbit story

This unit covers ‘Traditional and fairy stories’. These lessons will give children the opportunity to use and practise their developing literacy skills:

• The Enormous Turnip
• The Anansi stories
• Anansi and boastful bullfrog
• The Gingerbread Man

This unit aims to reinforce and apply children's word-level skills through shared and guided reading. Lessons include:

• The Enormous Crocodile
• The Gruffalo
• Winnie the Pooh
• Comparing presentations
• Creating a fantasy setting
• The class adventure
• Writing a story

This unit covers ‘Labels, lists and captions’. This unit builds on work done during the Foundation Stage and has three phases, with oral and written outcomes and assessment opportunities at regular intervals. Lessons include:

• What is a pet?
• Different dogs
• More about pets

This unit covers three areas:

• Listening and responding to oral instructions
• Reading and responding to written instructions
• Planning, sequencing and giving oral and written instructions.

Lessons include:

• Printer instructions
• Giving oral instructions
• Making a sandwich
• Board game rules

This unit is concerned with the skills and techniques of writing recounts. Lessons include:

• Our visit
• What we saw
• Writing recounts in stages
• Final details

This unit has three phases, with oral or written outcomes: reading for knowledge, analysing how these texts are structured and writing their own non-chronological reports. There are assessment opportunities at regular intervals. Lessons include:

• Looking at non-fiction texts
• Using contents pages
• Alphabetical order games
• Using index pages
• Using blurbs
• Posing questions
• Using dictionaries
• Research using ICT
• Writing some text
• Making a glossary
• Completing a class book

Thjis unit is based on observations of the growth of a seed. The unit has three phases with oral and written outcomes and assessment opportunities for teachers and children at intervals throughout each phase. The outcome for the unit is for the children to create a stop-frame animation of the life cycle of a seed. Lessons include:

• Fiction or non-fiction?
• Sequencing
• Story board recount
• Oral recount to written recount
• Diagrams to illustrate bean growth
• Writing captions

This unit covers three areas:

• Reading and responding to a range of poems
• Discussing and describing familiar objects
• Fitting words and phrases into a simple poetry frame.

Lessons include:

• Sight
• Sound
• Taste
• Touch
• Smell
• All the senses
   

This unit covers ‘Pattern and rhyme’ and covers three areas: reading, performing and creating poetry. Lessons include:

• Fun with nursery rhymes
• Word hunt
• More rhymes
• Playing with words
• Tongue twisters
• Put it all together

This unit contains 6 lessons. The first three lessons use the poem ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright as a stimulus for writing poetry, the second group of three lessons explore the idea of ‘Who do we meet at the end of the rainbow?’:

• The Magic Box
• Our magic box
• Our own magic box poems
• At the end of the rainbow
• Who did you meet at the end of the rainbow?
• Simple similes