English - Unit 1: Storytellers' Workshop - LESSON PLANS - Year 2

Tired of spending your weekends planning? Transform your Year 2 English lessons with this complete, 9-week inquiry-based unit that turns every student into a confident author!

Step into the world of "Unit 1: Storytellers' Workshop," a comprehensive English unit designed to save you time and deeply engage your Year 2 students. This unit focuses on elevating their narrative skills, moving beyond basic story elements to explore the finer craft of writing with creativity and precision.

Packed with creative, hands-on activities, this unit will transform your classroom into a dynamic, inquiry-based learning space where students don't just learn about stories—they live them as authors and illustrators.

What's Inside?

This 9-week unit is meticulously planned to help you deliver exceptional English lessons with confidence. You will find:

• 9 Weeks of Engaging Lesson Plans: Guide your students through a journey of creation, from becoming ‘Character Detectives’ to infer personality traits, building ‘Sentence Stretchers’ to create descriptive noun groups, designing ‘Story Mountains’ to map out complex plots, and proudly presenting their work at the final ‘Anthology Celebration!’.

• Australian Curriculum Aligned: This unit is fully aligned with the Year 2 English curriculum. It explicitly covers key content descriptors including AC9E2LE03, AC9E2LA07, AC9E2LA04, and AC9E2LY06.

• Play-Based & Experiential Learning: Foster genuine understanding with interactive and creative activities that make narrative concepts memorable and impactful. Imagine your students inferring character traits, constructing expanded noun groups with Sentence Stretchers, and planning plots on a Story Mountain.

• Built-in Assessment & Differentiation: Effortlessly monitor student progress through natural observation opportunities embedded in each activity. Every lesson includes clear support and extension tasks to cater to all learners in your classroom.

• Early Career Connections: Expose students to potential future pathways by weaving career education into every lesson. Connect activities to the work of an Author, Editor, Journalist, or Set Designer.

• Summative Assessment Task: Conclude the unit with a comprehensive "My Imaginative Story Creation & Author Presentation" task, complete with a student-friendly rubric for marking.

Cover Your Entire Year of English!

This is Unit 1 of a comprehensive 4-unit bundle. Together, these four units cover all mandatory content descriptors of the Year 2 English Curriculum, providing you with a full year's worth of engaging, high-quality English lessons. Stop the endless search for resources and reclaim your time.

Download "Unit 1: Storytellers' Workshop" today and ignite a lifelong love for storytelling and creative writing in your classroom!