Week 1
Objectives
Teaching Sequence – shared time
Familiarisation, capturing ideas, demonstrating,
teacher scribing, independent writing
Teaching and
Learning
Activities –
group work
Plenary Activities/
Learning Outcomes
Name farm
animals,explore
animal
sounds,create a
farm scene.
Introduce unit to children with small world farm circle
time activity. Each child to choose an animal, name and
describe it. Place animals in the centre of the circle to
build up a farmyard scene.
Collaborative group
work to create own
small world farm
scenes.
onderbox activity:
Place animals and key props from Mrs Wishy-Washy in
box. Explain how contents relate to story.
Invite children to take an item, name and describe.
Predict setting and plot.
Individuals/ pairs to
use Wonderbox to
‘”tell”’ their own
stories.
Name and describe
farm animals.
Describe elements of
farm yard scene
e.g.”Ducks go in the
water.’’
C talking about a horse
‘’This one’s jumping.’’
Listen to sound tape
game of animal
noises and match
sound to picture.
Listen attentively,
offer relevant
responses to a
bilingual story.
Predict outcomes.
Read big book to children, in English and Panjabi. Pause
briefly in the middle to predict Mrs Wishy-Washy’s
reaction to muddy animals.
Re-enact story with
large props.
Role play story using animal masks and props from
story, supported by adult.
Retell story
Reflect before
talking
Shared writing of a
letter.
Use Wonderbox materials to retell story- teacher and
learning assistant to model language, demonstrate turn
taking, etc.
Reread story, focus on last page, ask children to think
about what happened next. Use a 1 minute timer during
“thinking” time. Scribe responses.
Follow on from previous session, prompt ways of asking
Mrs Wishy-Washy ‘What happened next?’ Choose to
write a letter. Teacher to scribe, children to write names
at end.
.
Tape of story on
listening centre
with small versions
of text as
independent
activity.
Name characters and
describe setting of
story.
Recognise and name a
range of farm animals.
Join in with reading of
repetitive phrases.
Predict a range of
outcomes.
Re-enact story to whole
class.
Role play with
adult support
initially (week 1).
Continue in weeks
2 and 3 as
independent
activity.
Pairs to repeat
activity (one good
model in each pair).
Domestic role play
in Mrs WishyWashy’s laundry.
Retell narrative in pairs
and individually.
Role play washing
scenes.
Feeding back
predictions.
Teacher scribed list of
possibilities.
Re-read letter checking
for sense, use of capital
letters, full stops and
spelling of YR high
frequency words.