Factual Recounts and Post Cards: Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell/ Helen Oxenbury 8. What must I include and remember when writing a factual recount? 3.How do I write a postcard? How does descriptive language improve my sentence? What is an adjective?. 4. How can I identify verbs in sentences? How can I identify past and present tense verbs? 5.Which time openers has the author used? - first next? How can I work as a team to act out the story? 7.. How can I order the photographs? How did you make a cress duck footprint? 2.How can I use question marks correctly? How can I write detailed replies to questions?. 1.How can I clearly sequence the story? Which punctuation can I use to organise my writinginto clear sentences? 6. Which tense do you write a factual recount in? What are the key features of a factual recount?

Narrative Traditional Stories- The Little Red Hen, Chicken Licken, The Enormous Turnip 9. How can I improve my story when writing it for my best book? 3. Which interesting words can I use to replace “said”? 4. Chicken Licken –How can I write rhyming words? How does listening to phonemes help? 5.Why are wolves and foxes often to baddy in traditional tales? What must I include in a character profile for a baddy character? 8 .What must I include in my own plan of a traditional tale- Where is it set? Which language must I include? What animals does Chicken Licken meet? Who is your baddy character? 2. Listen and join in the Story of The Little Red Hen – Pie Corbett style.. How can I use this story map to help me to remember the order? 1. What are the key features of a traditional tale? 7. How can I create my own version of The Enormous Turnip? Work in pairs to plan an idea. 6 The Enormous Turnip-How can descriptions help to improve my story?

Stories with Familiar settings- The Snow Lambs- Debi Gliori- links to Guided reading 8 How can you retell the story form the point of view of the cat? 3Which key words and phrases can you find in the text to show how cold it is? 4.How is Sam feeling? How do you know? What evidence can you find to show Sam is feeling worried?. 5. What might the key characters be saying to each other? Why are exclamation marks used? 7. The Story of Bess and the Ewe. Plan story with a beginning, middle and end. Which key events are you going to describe? 2.Which words describe the wind , the snow and the cold? Which adjectives and adverbs are used? What is this story all about? Why is Sam’s dad looking worried? What do you think Bess the Sheep dog is doing? 6 How are antonyms used in the story? What are the contrasts in colour, temperature and feelings?

Information Texts-All About Farm Animals 8. Produce own information text page. How do images and texts combine. using key facts- Top tips adventurous word choices, compound sentences and accurate punctuation. 3.Why do books have a contents page?. 4. Look at explanation texts. Answer questions in detail using connectives-then because. E.g How much milk do cows produce each day? 5. Labelled diagrams Produce your own –linked to farm animals. 7. Use Internet to research –www.farms2ewe.co.uk/schools/ www.virtualfarmwalk.org 2. How do I use an index? -Use an index to locate answers. Write questions using question marks. 1What do I know about farms? What would you like to find out? When do I use a question mark? 6. What are headings and sub heading? Why are they used? 6.What is a glossary and how does it work?.

Writing a story in familiar settings –Recipes How to make…The Gingerbread Man 8. How can I layout a recipe?Write your own recipe. 3.Which verbs can I use to describe the movements of the Gingerbread man? Write imaginative descriptions to describe the movements of the Gingerbread man. 4. Retell the story using different verbs instead of run. Stamp skip 5. What are adverbs? How can I add these into my story? Quickly quietly wildly. 7. What are expanded noun phrases? How can I use them to improve my recipe? E.g plain flour 2. What are verbs? How can I identify the verbs in the text? 1. What happens to the Gingerbread man? Read the story. Make predictions. Role play. Prepare and rehearse a phone conversation. 6 How do I bake a gingerbread man? What are the ingedients?.