Year 1 – Writing
This half term we have enjoyed learning about animal habitats. To link with this we went on a lovely trip to Temple Newsam Farm and explored the farm and the grounds.
We have spent a lot of time getting to know the story of ‘Farmer Duck’. We used Talk for Writing to act out the story and create a story map of Farmer duck. The story map helped us to remember the order of the story, the key parts and our actions to act it out.
We then made our own individual story maps where we chose our own character for the story and our own key events.
We used our story maps to help us to write our own narrative.
"I love acting out the story. It is easy to remember." Pupil, 1LS.
"I liked drawing my story map. It was so much fun."
Pupil, 1LS
"Writing my story was tricky but I am proud of how it turned out. Using my story map made it easier."
Pupil, 1LS
"I have really enjoyed teaching the children how to use 'Talk for Writing' to act our the story of 'Farmer Duck' and it was fantastic to see every child join in and suggest actions. Seeing the children create their own story maps was wonderful as it it quite a tricky concept. It has been lovely to read the childrens stories and is great to see the children adding in adjectives into their writing."
Miss Sunderland, class teacher, 1LS.