House Held up by Trees Year 2 English Unit of Work

This is a planning sequence for The House Held up by Trees by Ted Kooser, illustrated by Jon Klassen. These slides are made by following the planning from the Literacy Tree website. It is advisable to have this planning to fully understand the context of the slides. Children explore the themes of the narrative and produce descriptive non-fiction writing in different forms such as writing the life-cycle of seeds, seed packets, estate agents and newspaper reports. The objectives covered are:

To write instructions;
To create noun phrases;
To create adverts from adjectives;
To use conjunctions;
To sequence events;
To use co-ordinating conjunctions;
To write in the present tense.

Included are detailed Smart Notebook slides with objectives, detailed learning, task and plenary. Lesson notes provided for some of the slides so you know the thought process behind the slides and to model the writing task. Also included are resources/worksheets where necessary although there is an expectation that children should write straight into their books. SEND resources are included to enable them to record in their books, for example sentence starters/writing frame.