This resource offers a classic 2-week Year 1 English MTP (Medium Term Plan) based on the traditional fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood”. This narrative unit is designed to entertain students, guiding them to write descriptive sentences matching characters and settings, culminating in an independent retelling of the story.

What’s Included?
The plan details a variety of engaging activities for reading and writing, with a strong focus on retrieval, making inferences, and recognizing and joining in with predictable phrases (VIP words). Students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in fairy tales by identifying key characteristics, going on a story hunt to find and sequence hidden parts of the narrative, and using puppets and masks for role-play.

In their writing journey, pupils will practice composing sentences orally before writing them down, engaging with adjective games to describe characters, and playing “trash or treasure” linked to proper nouns and capital letters. The plan heavily supports foundational grammar and phonics, featuring activities designed to teach the addition of suffixes like “-er,” “-est,” “-ing,” and “-ed,” as well as the prefix “un-” to root words. Students will also practice extending their ideas using conjunctions like “and,” “but,” or “because,” and correctly demarcating sentences with capital letters, full stops, and question marks.

The resource includes a detailed Marking Ladder to assess skills such as using five graphemes to sound out words, correctly applying prefixes and suffixes, and confidently reading their own writing aloud to check that it makes sense. Furthermore, it provides a specific Tier 2 vocabulary list—featuring words like “growled,” “disguised,” “shortcut,” and “leapt”—alongside a curated list of supplementary reading texts such as The Three Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel, and Honestly, Red Riding Hood was Rotten. This plan is an excellent tool for teachers seeking to develop narrative writing and inference skills through a highly familiar traditional tale.