Chants We Can Change - Year 2

Children work with familiar classroom, pretend parcel and playground chants before applying the same strategy to an unseen Picnic chant. Caller/group labels make roles clear. Repeated responses help learners predict the pattern, while practical changes give them something specific to test and explain.

Children identify repeated word groups, reproduce short caller/group exchanges and deliberately change and test one part. They compare what stayed and changed, hear the gate/wait ending-sound pair, and rehearse their own meaningful chant version. The three assessment skills are recorded separately; a completed worksheet alone does not establish oral reproduction.

What's included

• 38-page Unit Plan PDF: contents page, one teacher quick-start page, ten lesson-plan pages and 26 resource pages.
• Five complete lessons: 45, 45, 50, 50 and 55 minutes, with modelling, guided practice, independent application, support, extension and observation prompts.
• Four complete original six-line chants: The Classroom Beat Crew, Deliver the Parcel, Playground Move and Stop, and the fresh assessment text The Picnic Packing Chant.
• Colour displays, chant posters, caller/group and action cards, an eight-card Pattern Switch game and game mat.
• Black-and-white practice, comparison and planning sheets, a fresh assessment, a three-skill rubric and a reflective transfer activity.
• Six matching red answer/example pages immediately after their related sheets. Open creative examples are not the only acceptable responses.
• Editable 22-slide teaching PowerPoint.
• Editable 18-slide quiz PowerPoint: eight questions, each followed by its answer and feedback, plus opening and closing slides.
• 78-page watermarked Preview PDF showing the full Unit Plan, presentation and quiz in order.
• A separate high-quality Table of Contents JPEG.

Learning focus

Identify a repeated word group or response; reproduce a short exchange in order; deliberately change an item, action, destination or response; test sound and meaning; tell a listener what stayed and changed. Hear the familiar gate/wait rhyme without treating all chant lines as rhyming or equating beats with syllable counts.

Classroom use

Use as a five-lesson Year 2 English week for whole-class modelling, paired rehearsal, a cooperative pattern game and individual assessment. Read prompts aloud as needed. Children may respond through speech, pointing, action, drawing, a communication device or adult scribing, with support recorded. Small seated actions are included. Familiar books, pencils, a light empty pretend parcel and optional picnic props support teaching. No purchased text, audio, musical instrument or other unit is required.

Formats and answers

Unit Plan PDF: 38 pages, comprising contents (1), teacher quick start (1), lesson guidance (10) and resource pages (26).

Presentation PPTX: 22 editable slides. Quiz PPTX: 18 editable slides with eight question/answer pairs.

Preview PDF: 78 pages, duplicating the Unit Plan and both decks. Contents JPEG: one image of Unit Plan page 1.

78 primary teaching pages/slides in total; do not add the duplicate Preview or contents image to that total.

Six red answer/example pages follow the matching student sheets. Teacher game keys and oral-observation guidance are included. Resource-page artwork is supplied in PDF; presentation and quiz teaching text is editable.

Teacher benefits

Complete original texts avoid an external-text purchase. Timed lessons connect modelling to independent evidence. A fresh assessment checks transfer. Support options preserve the same literary-pattern goal. The rubric separates three skills and gives practical next teaching steps.

Digital product and licence

Digital download only; no physical product. Teaching and quiz files are PPTX. The Unit Plan and Preview are PDF, and the contents image is JPEG. Student resource-page designs are supplied within the PDF rather than as editable worksheet layouts. Use the files with your own class; do not resell or redistribute them.

Formats, page counts and answers

Unit Plan PDF: 38 pages, comprising contents (1), teacher quick start (1), lesson guidance (10) and resource pages (26).

Presentation PPTX: 22 editable slides. Quiz PPTX: 18 editable slides with eight question/answer pairs.

Preview PDF: 78 pages, duplicating the Unit Plan and both decks. Contents JPEG: one image of Unit Plan page 1.

78 primary teaching pages/slides in total; do not add the duplicate Preview or contents image to that total.

Six red answer/example pages follow the matching student sheets. Teacher game keys and oral-observation guidance are included. Resource-page artwork is supplied in PDF; presentation and quiz teaching text is editable.