This resource offers a charming 2-week Year 1 English MTP (Medium Term Plan) based on the classic text “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” by Judith Kerr. This narrative unit is designed to entertain students, guiding them to confidently retell the events of the story and write sentences describing its beginning, middle, and end.

What’s Included?
The plan features a variety of suggested activities for reading and writing, with a strong focus on developing inference, learning VIP words, and linking reading to background knowledge—such as exploring what pupils already know about tigers and looking at non-fiction books about animals. Students will have the opportunity to engage with the story by making shopping lists, creating tigers, and reading a range of Judith Kerr’s books. To build fluency, pupils will practice prosody aloud as a group and match phonetically decodable captions to pictures.

In their writing journey, pupils will sequence events from the story, change the character to retell the tale, and ultimately create their own retell for the Reading Area. Foundational grammar and phonics are heavily supported, with activities focusing on sorting and applying ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ suffixes, matching root words with the prefix ‘un’, and linking chopped-up sentences using “and” or “because”. The unit also makes connections to the Science animal topic by discussing how animals behave and what they eat.

The resource includes a detailed Marking Ladder to assess foundational writing skills, such as using four graphemes to sound out and write words, consistently checking that writing makes sense, and correctly using capital letters and full stops. Furthermore, it provides specific Tier 2 vocabulary words (like “jungle,” “furry,” “saucepan,” and “supper”) and a list of supplementary reading texts. This plan is a fantastic tool for teachers looking to inspire young writers through a wonderfully nostalgic and imaginative story.