Model Text: Little Red (NCR)

Cover of Little Red children's book

KS1, Y2

Non-Fiction: Non-Chronological Report

Skills:

  • Apostrophes for singular possession
  • Commas to list
  • Language features for NCR (present tense, technical vocabulary, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions, adverbs)
  • Organisational feature for NCR (headings, sub-headings, facts organised into groups)
  • Y2 suffixes: -ly / -less / -ness / (-ous)

Model Story: Something Fishy (Fiction)

Cover of Something Fishy children's bookCover of Something Fishy children's book

KS1, Y2

Fiction: Oral Story

Skills: 

  • Commas to list
  • and / but / or / when
  • Noun phrases to describe settings

Box-up:

  • Main Character (MC) in familiar setting finds a portal
  • MC goes through portal and explores
  • Disaster strikes!
  • MC escapes
  • MC returns to original world

Model Story: Little Red (Fiction)

Cover of Little Red children's book

KS1, Year 2

Fiction: Oral Story

Skills: 

  • Sentences with different forms
  • Coordination and subordination
  • Accurate present/past tense

Box-up:

  • Main Character (MC) in familiar setting goes on a journey
  • MC finds something interesting but is spotted by New Character (NC)
  • NC arrives at destination: disaster strikes!
  • MC discovers disaster
  • MC is triumphant