<p> The Great Fire Of London - Year 2</p><p>Creative opportunities Real Life experience options Cross curricular links Trip to St Mary’s Church at Gateshead (The great Fire Of Gateshead)</p><p>Speaking & Listening opportunities: Role Play Morning Literacy Meeting Hot seating Punctuation – what’s missing? Group work Fiction/non-fiction Talk partners Adjectives Seating for learning Imperative verbs Verbs Writing opportunities: Noun Phrases Recounts Improving sentences Story plans Connectives Stories Openers Character/setting descriptions Describe this – where is it? Who lives there? What might happen Non-Chronological Reports there? Note taking</p><p>Fiction Non- Fiction The Three Little Wolves And The Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas Recounts Non-Chronological Reports Spellings/Letters and Sound focus:- Vocabulary extension: Setting, author, familiar, illustrator, dialogue, predict, similes, Handwriting:- Cursive handwriting alliteration, information text, fiction, non-fiction</p><p>Punctuation/Grammar focus:- capital letters, full stops, exclamation From word list : Common exception words marks, commas, apostrophes, ellipsis, speech marks door, floor, poor, because, find, kind, mind, behind, child, children, wild, climb, most, only, both, old, cold, gold, hold, told, every, everybody, even, great, break, steak, pretty, beautiful, after, fast, last, past, father, class, grass, pass, plant, path, bath, hour, move, prove, improve, sure, sugar, eye, could, should, would, who, whole, any, many, clothes, busy, people, water, again, half, money, Mr, Mrs, parents, Christmas </p>