The Bog Baby - Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for Year 1 students during Autumn Term 1 centre around the core text, "The Bog Baby" by Jeanne Willis. This charming story serves as a springboard for a range of educational activities, including science topics such as identifying and labelling common animals and naming parts of the human body. The intended outcomes of the unit include the ability to retell the story or parts of it, create a fact file on an animal, and recount personal experiences. These outcomes provide opportunities for sentence writing practice and the application of what they have learned.

Throughout the term, the objectives are divided into four key areas: spoken language, reading, writing - composition, and writing - grammar and vocabulary. Students are encouraged to give and listen to opinions, using Standard English, and to recite or perform their own compositions. Reading objectives focus on using prior knowledge, picture clues, and context to understand texts, identify key events and characters, make predictions, and discuss unfamiliar words, while recognising the difference between storybooks and information books. In composition, they are guided to articulate and write coherent sentences, with attention to correct punctuation. Grammar and vocabulary objectives emphasise the understanding and use of sentences, recognition of upper and lower case letters, correct use of capital letters, particularly for the personal pronoun 'I' and special names, ensuring a strong foundation in the basics of English literacy.