Two Weeks Planning - Julian is A Mermaid

This is a two-week Writing Root using Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. Children discover a letter that is about being yourself. They make statements about their dreams and wishes before sharing the text. They explore verbs and use these to write commands that form instructions for being a mermaid. As the story unfolds, they predict, write in role and sort inferential statements. They create and advertise carnival costumes before moving to music as the creature they’ve decided to become. Finally, they look at the features of a poem before writing their own poems based on the idea of movement, being who you want to be and using verbs in their infinitive and progressive forms. Phonics for reading and writing is embedded as is punctuation for KS1.