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A Spelling Seed for Yeti and the Bird

 

KS: R & KS1

Year Group: Year 1

Literary Theme: Friendship & Kindness

Author(s): Nadia Shireen

Overview:

This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Yeti and the Bird by Nadia Shireen.  Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots 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.

There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.

Coverage:

Common Exception Words

friend, says, your, some

Spelling Rules and Patterns

Alternative spellings for ‘long e’

The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y

Adding -er and -est to adjectives where no change is needed to the root word

Phonics

Revision of split vowel digraphs

Revision of the alternative graphemes for long e: ee, ea, e and e_e

Alternative vowel grapheme revision

A Writing Root is available for Yeti and the Bird.

Writing Root Overview:

Outcomes:

List of rules, letters, postcards, character descriptions

Main outcome:

Own version narrative about an unlikely friendship

Length:

15 sessions, 3 weeks

Overview and Outcomes:

This three-week Writing Root would best be begun with a discussion about friendship. The children write a complete story about a two seemingly
different characters, which they write in the third person and using the past tense. They use adverbs to sequence and add cohesion, as well as conjunctions to write compound sentences (but and and).

Synopsis of Text:

Yeti lives alone in a wintery landscape. Well, maybe not quite alone, but no one is brave enough to go near big, scary Yeti. No one apart from Bird, who gets lost on her way south, makes a special friend, and opens up a whole new world for our Yeti.

Text Rationale:

This is a beautiful tale of forming unlikely friendships with others from different worlds. The text has strong PSHE links, exploring friendship and how we form new relationships with others. The book also has solid links to geography as different landscapes are explored.  Nadia Shireen is a significant, award-winning author and illustrator and children will enjoy exploring her other titles on their own.

Links and themes:

Friendship, unusual friendships, habitats, geography, overcoming differences 

Date written: August 2014

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