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These resources are intended to support the planning of effective literacy units based on high quality books. They are not intended to be lesson plans, but offer a menu of possible ideas for teachers to use as starting points to plan for purposeful learning and give pupils reasons for writing, as well as the skills they need to write with impact on their reader.
They follow a learning sequence:
· a hook to fully engage and interest the children;
· responding to reading activities to allow
immersion in and exploration of the text,
including picture exploration, book and writer
talk;
· capturing ideas activities which include drama
and talk to support understanding of the text
and to develop vocabulary, language and ideas
for writing;
· possibilities for the contextualised teaching of
grammar;
· sentence games to develop creativity, vocabulary,
language and grammar;
· links to guided reading;
· a range of writing tasks which may be final unit
outcomes or incidental opportunities during the
unit.
Specific mention is made of the writing sequence:
· modelled writing
· shared writing
· guided writing
In addition, cross-curricular links are suggested, including links to challenges from the Learning Challenge Curriculum.
The books included are:
EARLY YEARS AND KEY STAGE 1 MENU
| BOOK TITLE | PHASE/YEAR GROUP |
| Bedtime for Monsters | EYFS |
| Billy's Bucket | EYFS |
| Elmer | EYFS |
| Knuffle Bunny | EYFS |
| Oi! Get off our Train | EYFS |
| Penguin | EYFS |
| The Acorn | EYFS |
| The Tiger who Came to Tea | EYFS |
| Whatever Next! | EYFS |
| Where the Wild Things are | EYFS |
| Aaaarrgghh! Spider! | Reception & Year 1 |
| Naughty Bus | Reception & Year 1 |
| Bog Baby | Reception,
Years 1 & 2 |
| The Queen's Hat | Reception,
Years 1 & 2 |
| The Rabbit Problem | Reception,
Years 1 & 2 |
| I Love You, Blue Kangaroo | Year 1 |
| Leafman | Year 1 |
| Footprints in the Snow | Years 1 & 2 |
| Beegu | Year 1 & 2 |
| The Leopard's Drum | Years 1 & 2 |
| Man on the Moon | Years 1 & 2 |
| The Flower | Years 1 & 2 |
| Can't you sleep, Little Bear? | Years 1 & 2 |
| Winnie at the Seaside | Year 2 |
| Lila and the Secret of the Rain | Year 2 |
| Meerkat Mail | Years 1 & 2
(& Years 3 & 4) |
| The Tin Forest | Years 1 & 2
(& Years 3 & 4) |
KEY STAGE 2 MENU
| BOOK TITLE | PHASE/YEAR GROUP |
| Fox | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| The Lost Happy Endings | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| The Village That Vanished | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| Wolves in the Walls | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| Falling Angels | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| Castles | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| The Great Kapok Tree | Years 3,4,5 & 6 |
| Stone Age Boy | Year 3 |
| Jamil's Clever Cat | Year 3 |
| Fly, Eagle, Fly! | Years 3 & 4 |
| Escape from Pompeii | Years 3 & 4 |
| The Fox and the Star | Years 3 & 4 |
| The Worst Witch | Years 3 & 4 |
| Bedtime for Monsters | Years 3 & 4 |
| Shh! We have a Plan | Years 3 & 4 |
| The Journey Home | Years 3 & 4 |
| Arthgur and the Golden Rope | Years 3 & 4 |
| Gregory Cool | Years 3 & 4 |
| The Ice Palace | Years 3 & 4 |
| Meerkat Mail | (Years 1 & 2 &)
Years 3 & 4 |
| The Tin Forest | (Years 1 & 2 &)
Years 3 & 4 |
| The Firebird | Years 4 & 5 |
| Rose Blanche | Years 4,5 & 6 |
| Tuesday | Year 5 |
| The Incredible Book Eating Boy | Year 5 |
| Brother Eagle, Sister Sky | Year 5 |
| Think of an Eel | Year 5 |
| Cloud Tea Monkeys | Years 5 & 6 |
| The Princess' Blankets | Years 5 & 6 |
| Shackleton's Journey | Years 5 & 6 |
| The Lost Thing | Years 5 & 6 |
| Journey to Jo'Burg | Years 5 & 6 |
| Way Home | Years 5 & 6 |
| The Spider and The Fly | Years 5 & 6 |
| The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard | Year 6 |
| The Watertower | Year 6 |
| How to Train Your Dragon | Year 6 |
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