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Drawing Club Planning Complete Story Session

A premium, high-impact resource for magical storytelling and meaningful mark making.

Bring your Early Years classroom to life with this beautifully structured Drawing Club planning session, designed to transform a much-loved story into a world of imagination, creativity, and purposeful early writing. Created for busy practitioners, this one-page plan delivers everything you need to run a rich, engaging Drawing Club lesson with zero additional preparation.

Whether you are new to Drawing Club or a long-term practitioner, this resource provides a polished, professional framework that enhances vocabulary, develops their mark making, and strengthens the storytelling culture in your classroom.

Why Teachers Love This Resource

This planning document is crafted to save time, spark imagination, and provide highly effective teaching moments. Every element has been created with best practice in mind, giving you a ready-to-go session

What You Receive
Four expertly selected vocabulary words

Carefully chosen to deepen language, broaden story understanding, and enrich classroom discussion. These words help anchor the story and encourage confident talk.

Mini Moment 1: The Vocab

A playful introduction that immerses children in story language through actions, rhythm, sound and meaning.

Mini Moment 2: Share the Story

A guided storytelling moment that builds excitement and connection to the text. Prompts support prediction, retelling and character exploration.

Mini Moment 3: Drawing Club (three powerful prompts)

The heart of the session:

A clear Teacher Draws model to inspire children

A classroom hook designed to instantly draw children into the narrative

A purposeful Writing Code linking to early phonics (single sounds, special friends, simple captions)

A Maths Code encouraging mark making through early number, patterns and quantity

These three prompts give you flexibility, variety and ongoing inspiration for continuous provision or repeated sessions.

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A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place.

Bundle

Drawing club Planning - Traditional tales bundle

Traditional Tales Drawing Club Planning Bundle: Complete Literacy Pack Bring traditional tales to life with this complete Drawing Club Planning Bundle, designed to spark imagination, strengthen early literacy skills and save you hours of planning time. Perfect for nursery and Reception, this bundle includes a full set of Drawing Club plans based on well-loved traditional stories, carefully structured to build vocabulary, storytelling, comprehension and mark-making confidence. This bundle contains fully-prepared planning for three Drawing Club sessions per story, with clear vocabulary lists, engaging mini-moments, and imaginative Adventure Time prompts to deepen creative thinking. All plans follow a consistent, teacher-friendly format and have been designed with Birth to 5 Matters, communication & language, and early writing development in mind. Included: A complete collection of Ten Traditional Tales Drawing Club plans Three detailed sessions for each story Clear vocabulary lists to grow language Purposeful mini-moments linked to the narrative Inspiring Adventure Time prompts to extend early writing and creativity Consistent structure across all plans for easy, smooth delivery Ready-to-use Ideal for whole-class teaching, small groups, intervention sessions and provision enhancements Why Teachers Love This Resource Saves planning time with high-quality, ready-to-teach sessions Boosts engagement, especially for reluctant mark-makers Supports writing, as Drawing Club is highly visual and story-rich Encourages imagination, vocabulary development and early composition Perfect for linking literacy with wider provision and continuous play Works beautifully within story-led, play-based practice

£19.99

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