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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.