Y1 NON-FICTION UNIT 4: INFORMATION TEXTS

Powerpoints

• Phase 1; Earwig Factfile
• Phase 1 What were homes like long ago
• Phase 1 What were our parents toys like
• (All the above for using another curriculum area as a starting point.)
• Phase 1 Fact or Fiction: An interactive quiz, where the children have to choose whether the sentences are fact or fiction
• Phase 1 What type of book: The children have to choose which book they would find certain information from.
• Phase 3 Missing Letters: An activity to promote understanding of alphabetical order
• Phase 3: Alphabetical order: Demonstrates how to order words alphabetically.
• SMARTBOARD:
• Phase 1 Sorting Fiction and Non fiction books: Different book covers that the children sort into a table, fiction or non-fiction

NON-FICTION UNIT 5: RECOUNTS
POWERPOINTS

• The Life Cycle of a plant-simple: This is a very simple recount of how a seed turns into a plant.
• Life Cycle of a plant- detailed: A more detailed description, in the style of a non fiction book.

SMARTBOARD:

• Phase 1 Skeleton plan life cycle: Pictures of the different stages of the plant cycle, with a skeleton plan to move the pictures into.
• Phase 2 Skeleton plan life cycle: As above, but with connectives first then next, to move to the appropriate points in the skeleton
• My Scary Day Recount: A short recount to annotate and read in phase 1

 WORD:

• A list of ‘I can’ objectives, with a plan of how to write a recount.
•  ADOBE: Photographs of the different stages of the life cycle of a plant, to print out and use as a storyboard

Plus the following (details can be found on individual listings)

Y1 Narrative - Fantasy
The Magic Box
Sentence work
Fairy Tales:
Cinderella
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Frog Prince
Traditional Tales:
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
The Gingerbread Man
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs