Year 1 – Writing

‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers

As a school, we use ‘The Write Stuff’ approach to our writing lessons.

This half term we used the narrative ‘The Way Back Home’ to inspire our story writing. We had experience days mixed within our writing lesson. For example, during an experience lesson, children used drama to explore the moon and they used ‘hot-seating’ to question the boy. 

Each lesson is made up of two learning chunks. For each chunk we encourage the children to list a variety of vocabulary that can be used to create their own sentence after they have watched the teacher model.