This half term, Year 1 have been continuing our unit based on ‘Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion’ – but now we are authors of our own stories!
We began by re-reading the text together and reminding ourselves of the important features that we have been learning about, such as the conjunction ‘and’, the word ending ‘-est’ and using an exclamation mark at the end of a sentence.
We then started to think about titles for our own stories. Miss Honnor and Mrs Gavriel helped us by planning a story called ‘Little Red and the Very Hungry Kangaroo’! We came up with some great titles for our stories: Little Red and the Very Hungry Caterpillar; Little Red and the Very Hungry Cow; Little Hungry and the Very Hungry Cat…
Our teachers showed us how to draw a story map and we then had a go with our own ideas.
Then it was time to start writing! Each lesson, we have been focusing on writing one or two pages of our story. Before we write a sentence, we have learned that it is really important to say it 2 or 3 times so that we are really clear about what the sentence will say. Once we have written the sentence, we need to read it to make sure we have remembered a capital letter, finger spaces, correct spelling of the year one words and a full stop – or even an exclamation mark!
How to help at home:
- Encourage your child to read a range of stories and talk about the characters and settings
- Ask your child to write their own version of one of their favourite stories
- Encourage your child to practise reading and spelling the year 1 harder to read and spell words