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Year 1 Writing Unit: I Want My Hat Back – Story
Brand new for 2025 is this awesome writing unit for KS1, specifically Year 1.
This unit uses the fantastic book I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen to support children in building up to writing a simple story of their own.
Designed to be used over a period of two weeks, there are a variety of vocabulary, oracy and writing tasks designed to build the children’s knowledge, understanding and application of the elements of the KS1 writing curriculum.
The unit covers a range of National Curriculum writing objectives including:
- Use adjectives to describe
- Begin to punctuate sentences using capital letters and full stops
- Use question marks to end a sentence
- Sequence sentences to form a short narrative