English Year 1 Creating Literature

Recreate texts imaginatively using drawing, writing, performance and digital forms of communication

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40 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    English Unit: Narrative Writing

    This comprehensive Narrative unit provides you with everything you need to help your students begin to develop their narrative writing skill...

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1

    English Unit: The Gruffalo

    One of our most requested resources, this unit is built around the classic Julia Donaldson book, ‘The Gruffalo’. It focuses on retell skills...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    English Unit: The Very Cranky Bear

    Complete this ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ unit after reading the text. This unit has a large focus on important areas of the text that assist wit...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1

    English Unit: Room on the Broom

    This is a great literature unit on the book, ‘Room on the Broom’, written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The unit wil...

  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    Halloween Writing Prompts Lower

    This resource provides a fun and engaging way for students to develop their writing skills through imaginative Halloween-themed prompts. Eac...

  • Presentation Year: 1

    Narrative Writing - Presentation

    This engaging presentation is the perfect resource to assist you with introducing the structure of a narrative as well as the different proc...

  • Presentation Year: 1 2 3

    Digger Presentation

    This Digger presentation was created to support the book unit: Digger written by Mike Dumbleton. This presentation provides some background...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Halloween Booklet - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Halloween excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This 40-page booklet is packed with spooktacular activities, i...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Halloween Writing Templates

    These Halloween-themed writing template worksheets are designed to inspire young students to engage in creative writing.   

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Easter Pack - Upper Primary

    Elevate Easter celebrations for upper primary students (Years 5-6) with our dynamic Easter Pack! Engage in challenging math puzzles, creativ...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4

    Easter Pack - Middle Primary

    Unleash the spirit of Easter with our vibrant pack designed for students in Years 3-4! From egg-cellent word searches to math challenges wit...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Easter Pack - Lower Primary

    Dive into a world of Easter excitement tailored for our youngest learners! This pack is filled with delightful activities, including bunny m...

  • Worksheet Year: 1

    Narrative Writing Assessment Rubric

    If you are looking for a comprehensive way to assess and analyse your students’ narrative writing, then this rubric is for you. The rubric a...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Narrative Planners – Early Years

    Use the narrative writing templates to help students plan for writing or have them unpack narratives to see how all stories follow the same...

  • Worksheet Year: F 1

    Create a Character

    As your students are introduced to narrative writing, these character traits worksheets are a terrific template to allow your students to be...

  • Resource Year: 1

    Narrative Writing – Student Reference Card

    This student reference card gives your students a simple and clear understanding of the purpose of narratives, as well as the elements that...

  • Unit Plan Year: 1 2 3

    English Unit: Book Unit: Digger

    This book unit is based on the storybook ‘Digger’ written by Mike Dumbleton and illustrated by Robin Cowcher. ‘Digger’ was written as a trib...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    My Book Review

    This My Book Review worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students review their favourite parts of the storybook ‘Digger’...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Digger Colouring Sheets

    This Digger Colouring Sheet resource was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Use this resource as a fast finisher.  

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Digger Word Search

    This Digger Word Search was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Use this resource as a fast finisher.  

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Responding To Text

    This Responding To Text worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students reflect their favourite story character, and compa...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Write Another Ending

    This Write Another Ending worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students reflect on the ending to the storybook ‘Digger’...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Colette and Annie Comparison

    This Colette and Annie Comparison worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students compare the similarities and differences...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Letter to James

    This Letter to James worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students step into the shoes of Annie and write a letter to Ja...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Digger Cloze Comprehension

    This Digger Cloze Comprehension worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students read and fill in the missing spaces using...

  • Worksheet Year: 1 2 3

    Digger Sequencing

    This Digger Sequencing worksheet was created to support the Book Unit: Digger. Students sequence the events in the correct order.  

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Digger Key Vocabulary

    This simple class display was created to support the book unit: Digger. It provides a definition of the key vocabulary in the storybook ‘Di...

  • Resource Year: 1

    The Very Cranky Bear Mini Book

    This mini-book of Nick Bland’s ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ is a terrific resource for your students to practise their retelling and summarising s...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Roll-A-Story Narrative Prompts

    Roll a dice three times to discover the character, setting and problem to prompt you when writing your own fairy tale story.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2

    Retelling The Three Little Pigs

    This retell activity is great for building on oral language and retell comprehension skills for The Three Little Pigs. Use paddle pop sticks...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Puppets and Scene - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Cut out pictures of characters and an A4 setting. Can be used as a puppet show to recreate the story of  The Three Billy Goats Gruff

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative - Three Billy Goats Gruff

    A writing prompt for  The Three Billy Goats Gruff to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis  The Three Billy Goats Gruff...

  • Resource Year: F 1

    Puppets and Scene - Gingerbread Man Activities

    Cut out pictures of characters and an A4 setting. Can be used as a puppet show to recreate the story of The Gingerbread Man

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3 4 +2

    Narrative - Gingerbread Man Activities

    A writing prompt for The Gingerbread Man to be used on a class screen. Use along with the TeachThis The Gingerbread Man read aloud. 

  • Resource Year: 1

    Annotated Recount - Lower Primary

    Students will understand the structure of a recount by analysing the annotated text. 

  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Hungry Caterpillar - Word Wall

    Create a classroom word wall featuring the vocabulary from the popular children’s book, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +4

    The Story of Easter - Black & White

    The Story of Easter is shown here in a simple, easy to understand version suitable for young students.

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    The Easter Story in Pictures

    The Easter Story in Pictures allows students to discuss the story of Easter, discuss character motivations, the point of the story and use t...

  • Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Easter Story Display & Sequencing

    The Easter Story Display & Sequencing allows students to discuss the story of Easter, discuss character motivations, the point of the story...

  • Resource Year: 1 2 3

    Super 'W' Questions

    This classroom display features 5 super 'W' questions students should ensure they have answered when constructing texts.

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