The Day I Swapped my Dad for two Goldfish Year 3 English Unit of Work

This is a two-week sequence for The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman aimed at Year 3. 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 will get to read and discuss the story, identifying the different characters and their voices by using dramatised reading. The book will be used throughout to identify the features and conventions of written dialogue and use of speech marks, which children will draw upon to write their own missing scenes from the book. Children will consider the story from the perspective of Dad and write a diary entry in role. The sequences culminates in children using the cliffhanger at the end of the book to write their own sequel using the structure of the original story to plan and write their own.

The objectives covered are:
To use a conjunction;
To understand dialogue;
To punctuate direct speech;
To use apostrophes;
To write a missing scene;
To write a diary entry;
To retell a story;
To plan a story;
To write the opening of a story;
To write the middle part of a story;
To write the ending of a story;
To evaluate, edit and improve my writing.

Detailed Smart Notebook slides are provided for each lesson, including objective, detailed learning, modeling opportunities, task explanation, success criteria and plenary. Resources are provided where necessary. There is an expectation that children write directly in their English books so worksheets have not been made but there are resources for SEND/LA, for example, sentence stems, structure of writing, visual aids etc.