A Ready-To-Teach unit with not one, but 3 writing units based on the KS1 classic ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. This 4-week unit covers both reading and writing skills in a range of genres: character description, narrative retelling, and instructions. Each genre is complete with a detailed PowerPoint, lesson plans and resources. Unit 1 - Character Description Lesson 1: Exploring the text, focusing on new vocabulary Lesson 2: Generating adjectives to describe a character Lesson 3: Writing a character description Lesson 4: Exploring the text, focusing on making inferences Unit 2 - Narrative Retelling Lesson 1: Retelling the story using interesting sentence openers and the conjunction ‘but’ Lesson 2: Retelling the story using alliteration and a question Lesson 3: Retelling the story using interesting sentence openers and the conjunction ‘and’ Lesson 4: Exploring the text, focusing on making predictions Unit 3 - Instructions Lesson 1: Identifying the features of instructions Lesson 2: Sequencing events and planning instructions Lesson 3: Writing instructions Lesson 4: Writing instructions Lesson 5: Designing a disgusting sandwich Lesson 6: Planning instructions Lesson 7: Independently writing instructions Lesson 8: Independently writing instructions All files are completely editable, allowing you to adjust as needed for your children!

Help your children to improve their handwriting with these Ready To Use practice activities. Broken down into the different handwriting letter families, these activities focus on the key skills of letter formation and sizing both as individual letters and within high frequency words. Designed to be completed as extra practice at home, each activity has 8 practice letters split into 4 parts and a consolidation section with every letter of the alphabet - one part for each day of the week. To support both children and parents, each activity has a QR code linking to a demonstration video which shows the correct starting points and formation for each letter. All documents are completely editable, meaning you can adjust and adapt as necessary to suit your school and children!