YEAR 1 / YEAR 2 MIXED AGE PLAN
Year 1 Non-fiction - Unit 3 - Suggested teaching approaches
Note: Children working significantly above or below age related expectations
will need differentiated support, which may include tracking forward or back in
terms of learning objectives. EAL learners should be expected to work within
the overall expectations for their year group. For further advice see the
progression strands and hyperlinks to useful sources of practical support.
Phase 1: Practical work; information finding; listening and talking (3
days)
Teaching content:
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Model a recount from a personal experience with which children will be
familiar such as going shopping or receiving a present. Encourage
children to ask questions by missing out information or making mistakes,
for example What did you buy? What was in the parcel? How did you get
there?
Using the teacher's recount as a model, children practise with their
response partners and ask each other questions to improve their spoken
recount.
Children listen to others in the class and identify what makes a good
recount. The teacher scribes ideas to keep as class success criteria.
Learning outcome:
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Children can listen to a recount and ask questions to support their
understanding. (Y1)
Children can listen to a recount and remember specific points and identify
what they have been learnt (Y2)
Phase 2: Analysis; discussion and supported composition (2 days)
Teaching content:
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Children draw pictures or a timeline to sequence their recount. This could
be supported by the use of an IWB, digital photographs and sequencing
by moving images around the board.
With response partners children orally compose sentences to accompany
at least two of the pictures. Take time to discuss what makes a sentence.
Refer to Developing early writing
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63337/.
The teacher selects a set of pictures which accurately reflect the recount
and uses these for supported composition of the recount, using an IWB to
share and record writing. Children suggest what the teacher might write or
how it might be improved. Again the teacher should reinforce sentence
construction and the correct use of time connectives.
Learning outcomes:
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Children can order events correctly. (Y1)
Children can identify and explain the main features of a sentence. (Y1)
Children can tell and recount from their own experiences in an audible
voice (Y2)
Phase 3: Reading analysis; shared and independent writing (5 days)
This part of the teaching sequence is based on Developing early writing, Year
1 unit 9: The day the fire engine came to school
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63337/.
Teaching content:
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Demonstrate the use of a simple dictionary to locate words connected to a
school event such as big and engine. Use dictionaries throughout this
phase and play games and sing songs to support alphabetical order.
Using as a starting point the class recount produced as supported
composition, identify and record the main features of a recount and useful
words such as next, then and after.
Talk about the event in school, recalling what happened, generating
questions and useful vocabulary.
Use photographs or digital images on an IWB to support and order shared
writing, teacher scribing and supported composition as in the example
from Developing early writing.
Children will judge the effectiveness of each other's recounts against the
success criteria they generated when reading recounts.
The photographs, digital images and recounts are put together to form a
class book or interactive ICT display.
Learning outcomes:
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Children can use knowledge of the alphabet to locate words in simple
dictionaries. (Y1)
Children can write at least three simple sentences in the past tense and
use some time connectives in a recount. (Y1)
Children can understand the definition of a word in a dictionary (Y2)
Children can write simple and compound sentences and use
time/sequence words (Y2)