£5.00 (inc. VAT)
KS: R & KS1
Year Group: Year 1
Literary Theme: Nature & Environment
Author(s): Tom Percival
Writing in role; notes of advice; missing posters; diary entries; letters of thanks
Own version narrative
15 session, 3 weeks
In this three-week planning sequence, the children discover a bear having a picnic. They talk about their own special toy and create labels. But then the bear is left behind and the story, The Sea Saw by Tom Percival is shared. The children give advice in the form of commands to the sea (who plans to help the bear to return to Sofia) before helping Sofia make wanted posters that use statements, questions and commands. To support sequencing of events, the children learn to spell the days of the week and include these in a diary entry. Words prefixed with un- are investigated and the use of ‘and’ is explored so that the children can write a letter in role as Sofia thanking the sea for returning her bear. Then, to plan their extended piece of writing – an own version narrative – the children create titles in the style of Tom Percival’s, make maps as plans and then write their stories in three stages, mainly focusing on the objective To sequence sentences to form short narratives before editing, publishing and sharing.
When Sofia loses her beloved teddy after a day at the beach, she is heartbroken. But the sea saw it all, and maybe, just maybe, it can bring Sofia and her teddy back together. However long it may take... Exquisite collage artwork is paired with an assured, moving text in this very special picture book.
Seaside, sea, beaches, teddy-bears
A Spelling Seed is available for The Sea Saw.
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book The Sea Saw by Rachel Ip. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.
Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement the Literary Curriculum by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.
Spelling Seeds work alongside the texts within the Literary Curriculum and, as such, will also reflect the suggested number of weeks spent on a text, as well.
so, of, by, go
Adding -er and -est to adjectives
Adding s and es to words
m using -mb
ou, ow (/aʊ/) ow,(/əʊ/), ue, ew
ar,ee, ea (/i:/), ea (/ɛ/)
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