This half term Year 2 are reading the story ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo. It is an exciting adventure story about a brave little robin’s long journey home battling through storms, oceans and terrifying hawk attacks. During the half term we will be writing non chronological reports about robins, diary writing from different characters perspectives and retelling scenes using exciting verbs. In line with Talk for Writing, we will be retelling the story using actions and phrases before innovating the story and changing different elements to create our own narrative.

In Year One this half term we will be studying the story of The Three Little Pigs.

We will learn to retell the whole story by drawing our own story maps and using actions to help us.  We will begin to use connecting words in our verbal retelling and then use them in our writing.

We will develop our writing skills by composing our own sentences to create our own retelling.  We will create character descriptions so that we can enhance our stories.