KS: R & KS1
Year Group: Year 1
Literary Theme: Friendship & Kindness
Author(s): Nadia Shireen
This is a three-session spelling seed for the book Yeti and the Bird by Nadia Shireen. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.
Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning.
There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root.
friend, says, your, some
Alternative spellings for ‘long e’
The /s/ sound spelt c before e, i and y
Adding -er and -est to adjectives where no change is needed to the root word
Revision of split vowel digraphs
Revision of the alternative graphemes for long e: ee, ea, e and e_e
Alternative vowel grapheme revision
A Writing Root is available for Yeti and the Bird.
List of rules, letters, postcards, character descriptions
Own version narrative about an unlikely friendship
15 sessions, 3 weeks
This three-week Writing Root would best be begun with a discussion about friendship. The children write a complete story about a two seemingly
different characters, which they write in the third person and using the past tense. They use adverbs to sequence and add cohesion, as well as conjunctions to write compound sentences (but and and).
Yeti lives alone in a wintery landscape. Well, maybe not quite alone, but no one is brave enough to go near big, scary Yeti. No one apart from Bird, who gets lost on her way south, makes a special friend, and opens up a whole new world for our Yeti.
This is a beautiful tale of forming unlikely friendships with others from different worlds. The text has strong PSHE links, exploring friendship and how we form new relationships with others. The book also has solid links to geography as different landscapes are explored. Nadia Shireen is a significant, award-winning author and illustrator and children will enjoy exploring her other titles on their own.
Friendship, unusual friendships, habitats, geography, overcoming differences
Date written: August 2014
View Yeti and the Bird Writing Root
KS: Lower KS2, R & KS1, Upper KS2
Year Group: Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
