Creation Story (Christian) - KS1 Text Types: Writing Planners and Model Texts

Explore the Christian creation story with KS1 using this text type resource pack. It compliments work in RE, and is a perfect literacy resource to encourage retelling a familiar story. Pupils will write read the model text, showing WAGOLL (what a good one looks like); then write their own versions of the creation story. Opportunities to teach or revisit the use of adjectives and the conjunction ‘and’ are included within the teacher notes.

This resource includes:

• Model text - How God Made the World - A retelling of the Christian creation story
• Creation story writing sheet: This contains a success criteria that pupils can use, examples of adjectives and how the conjunction ‘and’ can be used to join sentences
• Creation story image cards - A set of PDF image cards that pupils can use to sequence the story and use when planning their retelling
• Creation story planning sheet: a worksheet to support pupils to plan and structure their writing
• Writing paper: A PDF sheet that pupils could use to present their work

National Curriculum English programme of study links:

Year 1

• Pupils should be taught to write sentences by saying out loud what they are going to write about
• Pupils should be taught to write sentences by composing sentences orally before writing
• Pupils should be taught to write sentences by sequencing stories to form short narratives
• Pupils should be taught to join words and joining clauses using ‘and’

Year 2

• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by writing narratives ...
• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by considering what they are going to write before beginning by planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by writing down ideas and / or key words, including new vocabulary
• Pupils should be taught to develop positive attitudes and stamina for writing by encapsulating what they want to say, sentence by sentence
• Pupils should be taught to use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify

This resource is part of the WAGOLL: text types writing packs collection.
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• Model text - How God Made the World
• Creation story writing sheet
• Creation story image cards
• Creation story planning sheet
• Writing paper