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Year 1 English Term 3: Animal Texts, Opinions and Tiny Reports
Year 1 · English · Term 3
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Week 1 Lesson 1: What Is an Information Text?
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to text purpose and facts.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can tell a fact about the topic animal.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 1 Lesson 2: Headings, Pictures and Captions
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to print and screen features.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 1 Lesson 3: Facts We Can Check
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to fact identification.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can tell a fact about the topic animal.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 1 Lesson 4: Ask and Answer About Animals
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to questions and answers.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 1 Lesson 5: Mini Report: One Animal Fact
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to single fact report.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can tell a fact about the topic animal.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 2 Lesson 1: Animal Nouns
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to nouns for people, places and things.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 2 Lesson 2: Animal Verbs
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to verbs for actions.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 2 Lesson 3: Animal Adjectives
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to describing qualities.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 2 Lesson 4: Where, When and How Words
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to detail words.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 2 Lesson 5: Build a Better Animal Sentence
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to combining vocabulary in sentences.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can check my sentence for a capital letter and end mark.
Week 3 Lesson 1: A Sentence Is One Idea
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to simple sentence idea.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can check my sentence for a capital letter and end mark.
Week 3 Lesson 2: Capital Letters Start the Job
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to capital letters.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can check my sentence for a capital letter and end mark.
Week 3 Lesson 3: Full Stops, Questions and Exclamations
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to end punctuation.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can check my sentence for a capital letter and end mark.
Week 3 Lesson 4: Captions Match Images
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to caption writing.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 3 Lesson 5: Edit My Animal Sentence
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to rereading and editing.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 4 Lesson 1: Read a Tiny Animal Report
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to reading informative text.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 4 Lesson 2: Use the Picture to Help
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to visual meaning.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 4 Lesson 3: Find Topic Words
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to topic vocabulary.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 4 Lesson 4: Check Meaning as You Read
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to monitoring meaning.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 4 Lesson 5: Compare Two Animal Texts
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to similarities and differences.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 5 Lesson 1: What Happened First?
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to recount sequence.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 5 Lesson 2: Recount an Animal Visit
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to recount details.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 5 Lesson 3: Use Time Words
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to sequencing vocabulary.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 5 Lesson 4: Retell With Pictures
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to visual sequence.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 5 Lesson 5: Write a Short Recount
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to short recount writing.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 6 Lesson 1: Likes, Dislikes and Preferences
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to preferences.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can give a reason using because.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 6 Lesson 2: Give a Reason With Because
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to because statements.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can give a reason using because.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 6 Lesson 3: Opinion or Fact?
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to fact vs opinion.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can tell a fact about the topic animal.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 6 Lesson 4: Speak Clearly and Listen
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to turn-taking and listening.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 6 Lesson 5: Write an Animal Opinion
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to opinion writing.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can give a reason using because.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 7 Lesson 1: Characters in Animal Stories
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to character.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 7 Lesson 2: Settings in Animal Stories
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to setting.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 7 Lesson 3: Events in Animal Stories
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to events.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 7 Lesson 4: Story or Report?
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to text comparison.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 7 Lesson 5: Adapt a Familiar Animal Story
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to adaptation.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 8 Lesson 1: Choose a Report Animal
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to planning.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 8 Lesson 2: Collect Three Facts
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to fact gathering.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can tell a fact about the topic animal.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 8 Lesson 3: Plan With a Heading and Picture
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to report planning.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can tell a fact about the topic animal.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 8 Lesson 4: Draft Simple Sentences
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to drafting.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 8 Lesson 5: Add Caption and Topic Words
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to caption and vocabulary.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 9 Lesson 1: Reread to Check Meaning
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to editing meaning.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 9 Lesson 2: Fix Capitals and Stops
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to punctuation editing.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can check my sentence for a capital letter and end mark.
Week 9 Lesson 3: Improve With an Adjective
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to adding detail.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 9 Lesson 4: Publish a Tiny Report
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to publishing.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 9 Lesson 5: Practise a Short Presentation
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to oral presentation.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 10 Lesson 1: Review Text Purposes
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to purpose review.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 10 Lesson 2: Review Sentences and Punctuation
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to sentence review.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can check my sentence for a capital letter and end mark.
Week 10 Lesson 3: Review Topic Vocabulary
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to vocabulary review.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 10 Lesson 4: Share Your Animal Text
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to sharing and responding.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
Week 10 Lesson 5: Animal Text Showcase and Exit Ticket
50 minLearning Intent: We are learning to use animal texts to unit showcase.
- I can listen, read or view carefully.
- I can use one useful topic word.
- I can show my answer by saying, writing, drawing or choosing.
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