Tadpole's Promise

Two weeks of English lessons based on the book Tadpole’s Promise.
ActivInspire Flipchart - Each day has a quick phonics read slide, a LO slide, vocabulary slide and a steps to success slide. A long with the lesson/teaching slides.
Where appropriate a differentiated activity for the less able and resources. Week 1 includes children writing their own promise, making a fact sheet on tadpoles, presenting information, looking at capital letters for days of the week (spag lesson). Week 2 includes sequencing the story, looking at adjectives and nouns related to the story, changing the story opener (changing one character), and thinking of an alternative ending before writing their own story.

I have listed a brief outline of each day.
Week 1 (5 lessons)
Monday - L.O I can show you where I can use a capital letter for the names of people and when I use I.
Looking at the front cover of A Tadpoles Promise and discussing what a promise is. Children write their own promise.
Tuesday- L.O I can add two sentences together using ‘and’.
LO: I can spell some words using the phonemes I have learnt.
Children to read a fact sheet (T led or a copy for each child). Activity – Children to create a fact file (template available) about tadpoles, using ‘and’ to join linked ideas. LA- close procedure worksheet.
Wednesday - L.O I can read aloud my own writing so my friends and the teacher can hear me.
Children discuss what they know about caterpillars and then watch a video (link) and make notes. Children to then present to each other.
Thursday- L.O :I can show you where I can use a capital letter for the days of the week.
-I can spell the days of the week and use them in a sentence.
Read the Hungry Caterpillar – discussion on when we should use capital letters.
What would your caterpillar eat on each day of the week? Children to then write their own choices for their caterpillar.
Friday - LO: I can tell you where I would use a capital letter.
LO: In my writing I use capital letters for the names of
people, places, the days of the week and when I use I.
Looking at nouns and proper nouns. Children to re write the sentences, putting the capital letters in correctly.

Week 2 (6 lessons)
Monday
L.O -to retell the main events of a story in sequence.
What is a story sequence? Look at the traditional tale Jack and the Beanstalk – discuss what is wrong with the sequence. Activity - Children to sequence the pictures of a Tadpoles Promise.
Tuesday- L.O to use adjectives to add detail.
Recap on what adjectives and nouns are.
Children to find the nouns and adjectives in the text- A Tadpoles Promise.
Wednesday – L.O - I can put words together to build sentences. story openers
Thursday – LO - To plan an alternative ending to the story Children to discuss a different ending.
Friday – LO: L.O - I can put words together to build sentences.
write whole story.

*Extra lesson -SPAG based on nouns and plurals adding s and es – link to tadpole’s promise