A Year 1 unit based on the book Handa's Surprise created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Handa's Surprise - Teaching Slides is a PowerPoint presentation which contains a range of task modelling, group activities and teaching and learning opportunities that teachers can use as they explore the focus text in this English unit from Focus Education. 

Teaching Slides

Handa's Surprise - Teaching Slides

A Year 1 unit based on the book Beegu created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Beegu

Beegu

A Year 1 unit based on the book Billy's Bucket created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Billy's Bucket

Billy's Bucket

A Year 1 unit based on the book Dogger  created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Dogger 

Dogger

A Year 1 unit based on the book Meerkat Mail created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Meerkat Mail

Meerkat Mail

A Year 1 unit based on the book Vlad and the Great Fire of London created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Vlad and the Great Fire of London

Vlad and the Great Fire of London

A Year 1 unit based on the book Lost and Found created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Lost and Found

Lost and Found

A Year 1 unit based on the book Rabbit Problem and Peter Rabbit created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Rabbit Problem and Peter Rabbit

Rabbit Problem and Peter Rabbit

A Year 1 unit based on the book The Bog Baby created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 The Bog Baby

The Bog Baby

A Year 1 unit based on the book The Naughty Bus created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 The Naughty Bus

The Naughty Bus

A Year 1 unit based on the book Winnie at the seaside created by Focus Education. Students use the focus text as a basis to develop their reading, writing and SPaG skills and engage with a range of comprehension and discussion based activities. This unit is fully aligned with the National Curriculum and uses an enquiry-approach to develop student progression.

Year 1 Winnie at the seaside

Winnie at the seaside

Year 1 - Scheme of Work - Focus English

English

Year 1

Writing

Based on a Book

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

Comprehension

Handa's Surprise

Awarded an OBE for Services to Education, Clive Davies has designed and built these schemes around progression and enquiry. Focus Education resources are of the highest educational quality.

Handa's Surprise

English Unit Description