Read & Respond Funnybones: Correlation to the 2014 Curriculum

Section / Lesson title / Page / Objective(s)
Plot character and setting / Dem bones – rhythm sticks / 11 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Plot character and setting / Skeleton dancing / 11 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Plot character and setting / Mixed-up skeleton zoo / 12 / Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Transcription: Spelling (see Appendix 1, English Programmes of study for Key Stages 1-2)
To spell by segmenting words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly.
Plot character and setting / Beware the skeleton! / 12 / Year 1 programme of study: READING: Word reading
To apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
Plot character and setting / Journey maps / 13 / Year 2 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.
Plot character and setting / What happens next? / 13 / Year 2 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by discussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related.
Plot character and setting / Who says what? / 14 / Year 2 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To participate in discussion about books, poems and other works that are read to them and those that they can read for themselves, taking turns and listening to what others say.
Plot character and setting / Bony bingo / 14 / Year 1 programme of study: READING: Word reading
To apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
Talk about it / Who am I? / 19 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Talk about it / Scary concept line / 19 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Talk about it / Agree or disagree / 20 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Talk about it / What is a person? / 20 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Talk about it / Scary story sack / 21 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Talk about it / The dark dark game / 21 / Year 2 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by discussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related and becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales.
Get writing / Skeleton rhymes / 25 / Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing poetry.
Get writing / A different tale / 25 / Year 2 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional).
Get writing / How to make a dancing skeleton / 26 / Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing for different purposes.
Get writing / Expanding universe / 26 / Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing for different purposes.
Get writing / Bone dominoes / 27 / Year 1 / Year 2
Specific requirements for pupils to discuss what they are learning and to develop their wider skills in spoken language form part of this programme of study.
Get writing / A Funnybones sequel / 27 / Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing for different purposes.
Assessment / Funnybones blurb / 31 / Year 2 programme of study: READING: Comprehension
To explain and discuss their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those that they listen to and those that they read for themselves.
Year 2 programme of study: WRITING: Composition
To develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing for different purposes.

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