- Sentences based on model in text - Look at me! I can…
- Thought bubbles
- Retelling of story oral or written, as appropriate
- Labelling spider or other mini-beast or creature
- Captions as above
- Fact box on spider or other creatures
- Write story with another creature wanting to be a family pet
- Spider poems
- What I would like to have as a pet
- Instructions - how to look after a …
/ 1. Responding to the Text
- Use front cover to predict what might be happening
- Read up to page with the spider invasion and predict what they think may happen
- Book talk: What did you like about the story? Was there anything you did not like?
- Book talk: Does the story remind you of anything? Does it make you think of any questions?
- Join in with repeated phrases in the book
- Look at the double page of the silver spider webs. How does it make you feel? Can you think of any adjectives? What does it remind you of?
- Read other spider stories and rhymes
Hook
- Pets visiting school with owners
- Visit from “zoo man” or to a zoo
- Go on a web or spider hunt
- Turn role play area/book corner into a web
2. Capturing Ideas
- What might the world look like from a spider’s point of view? Draw classroom or other room from spider’s point of view
- Think of questions and hot seat spider and/or family members
- Think about why people are afraid of spiders?
- What other creatures might people be afraid of Why?
- Gather facts about spiders for display
- Story map - annotate with key language. Use for oral retelling
- Create story map for story with different creature - annotate with key language. Use for oral retelling
- Role play story using puppets, small world resources etc
- Choosing an animal the y would like as a pet and saying why. Sentence structure identified - I would like a … because …
- Sentence not a sentence game
- Human sentences
- Action verb game - children act out movement verbs and rehearse sentences
- Chain writing with spiders/webs as starting point, using features appropriate to year group
- Conjunction game with identified conjunctions as appropriate
- Concept of a sentence
- Joining extending sentences with identified conjunctions as appropriate
- Using well-chosen verbs and adjectives to describe spiders/webs/movement
Guided Reading Possibilities
- Look at non-fiction texts about spiders and other mini-beasts
- Read other books about mini-beasts - The Very Hungry Caterpillar and others by Eric Carle, The Snail and The Whale by Julia Donaldson and the Anansi stories
- Identify and discuss features of text type for final written outcome. Level of text can be pitched at each groups’ level, ensuring both access and challenge.