For this unit you will need a copy of the text ‘The Last Garden’ written by Rachel Ip and illustrated Anneli Bray. Published by Hodder Children’s Books, ISBN: 978-1444946345

Overview: This is a 3 week + sequence aimed at Year 2, which follows the SLN process, resulting in pupils writing an evocative setting description. ‘The Last Garden’ is the moving story of how a community garden can bring hope to a war-torn community and be a special place where people can come together as a force for good. Pupils will be embedded in the ideas around what makes a place special and how characters feel when places change. They will also cover how to use grammar and punctuation in context, looking at apostrophes for possession and the use of adjectives to describe nouns as well as how to combine sentence and expand them with conjunctions to make their meaning more clear. A text led unit that is sure to stay with your class as truly memorable.