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Language and Literature Activities

Activities in this section are adapted from Core Knowledge UK resource books, and are meant to represent a 'taster' selection. These activities also support the content taught in the Core Knowledge UK curriculum, which we call the Core Knowledge Sequence UK. Explore the language and literature activities below and enjoy sharing them with your child or pupils in your class:

Year 1: Cultural Literacy

Year 1: Teaching Children to Read and Write

Year 1: Poetry - 'The Wind' by Christina Rossetti

Year 1: Aesop's Fables

Year 1: The Lion and the Mouse - Aesop's Fable

Year 2: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - Aesop's Fable

Year 2: Familiar and Favourite Poems - 'A Good Play' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Three Wise Men of Gotham', 'The Purple Cow' by Gelett Burgess

Year 2: Tongue Twisters and Riddle Rhymes

Year 2: Stories - Issun Boshi (One-Inch Boy)

Year 2: Familiar Sayings

Year 3: Poetry - 'Something Told the Wild Geese' by Rachel Field

Year 3: The Emperor’s New Clothes (Based on the Story by Hans Christian Andersen)

Year 3: Tall Tales - Albion and Brutus

Year 3: Arachne the Weaver - A Myth from Ancient Greece

Year 3: Daedalus and Icarus - A Myth from Ancient Greece

Year 4: Poetry - 'Eletelephony', 'For Want of a Nail', 'Ducks' Ditty'

Year 4: The Story of William Tell

Year 4: Parts of a Sentence - Main and Subordinate Clauses