Literacy medium term plan
Area of Study
Literacy
Cross Curricular Links
Class / Year group
Year 1/2S
Time available
5 hours
Additional Information : eg speaking and listening focus / risk assessment
Lesson Focus
Learning objectives
(including NC refs)
Main Learning Activity
Resources
(including staffing)
Reading ‘The Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud’
Decomposition of story features through
speaking and listening and hot seat activity.
Children carry out comprehension related
task
IWB
Book
Activity sheets
Pretend microphone
and chair
Lesson 2
Lesson 1
Week 3
I can identify features of a
Story
decomposition story
(En1) 1d focus on the main
points
(En1) 2b ask questions to clarify
understanding
Story
sequencing
I can sequence the events
within a story
Speaking and listening and discussing story
events.
Children will try to put the story together in
(En2) 3b Use their knowledge of the correct sequence by acting out the
sequence and story language
story
when retelling stories
Children will complete a story sequencing
(En3) 1b sequence events and
activity
recount them in appropriate
detail
Laminated characters
Activity sheets and
pictures
iPad to record good
examples
Lesson 5
Lesson 4
Lesson 3
Literacy medium term plan
Explaining a
story setting
and using
adjectives
I can describe a story setting
Images
(En2) 3a identify and describe
characters, events and settings
in fiction.
Children will look for clues in the story to
describe and explain its setting. Children to
use adjectives
Using pictures from previous weeks icy
weather children will describe the setting
of the picture
RE focus day
RE focus day
RE focus day
RE focus day
SIKHISM
SIKHISM
SIKHISM
SIKHISM
Beginning to
design a story
I can begin to plan a story
Children will consider characters and story
lines as part of a story mountain
(En3) 2b assemble and develop
ideas on paper