Y1 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Writing in a Book Lesson
This Writing in a Book lesson covers the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label school images, before moving onto the main skill of writing in a book.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objective
This step does not relate to a YEAR ONE objective. However, this remains a crucial step in teaching or reminding children how their own writing should be presented. This step should be used to help children adapt to how they will be writing in Year One.
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2 Teaching Support
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label school images, before moving onto the main skill of writing in a book. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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Modelling PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Scheme of Work
This is a free scheme of work for Year 1 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. This resource is the first block in the teaching sequence and includes 6 small steps with guidance for teaching.
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Lesson Slides
These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Writing in a Book Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of applying phonics sounds to label school images before moving onto the main skill of writing in a book.
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Interactive Activity
This Reception School Labelling Game is designed to check pupil's ability to apply their phonics knowledge to label images of school items.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, application and reasoning questions for pupils to practise the main skill of writing in a book.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 1 Writing in a Book Game is designed to check pupils' ability to write in a book.
2 Application
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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Application
This writing in a book application task includes an activity which can be used to allow pupils to apply their understanding of the concepts taught in the writing in a book lesson.
2 Homework
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Homework
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
