Mrs Wishy-Washy Foundation English Unit

The Mrs Wishy-Washy Foundation English Unit is a complete five-lesson learning sequence for teaching characters, setting, problem, solution, event order, oral retelling and simple story language.

Students explore the features of stories and different ways a literary text can be shared. They sequence events with colour cards, use first, next, then and finally, retell through puppets and dramatic play, collect favourite-character data, create a mini-book, complete story maps and construct simple sentences.

Large visual prompts, teacher modelling, oral response, tracing, drawing, cutting and sorting support Foundation learners. Core tasks develop story mapping and sentence construction, while Change One Event invites students to adapt part of the story and share a new version.

The two-page A Muddy Morning assessment uses an original lamb-and-farmer scenario to check story-element identification, picture-sequence retelling and creation of a different ending without relying on the familiar book context.

What's Included

• 59-page unit plan PDF
• Editable 17-slide teaching presentation
• Editable 22-slide quiz
• Combined watermarked preview PDF
• Story Elements, Retell in Order and Ways to Share a Story displays
• Story-form sorting and sequencing activities
• Farmyard puppets, theatre scenery and character headbands
• Favourite-character survey, pictograph and retelling mini-book resources
• Foundation worksheets covering action words, characters, story maps, sequencing, sentence building and story adaptation
• Two-page assessment with matching answers
• Five-level rubric and 16 matching answer pages across the unit

Learning Focus

• Recognise characters, setting, problem and solution.
• Identify ways stories can be presented and shared.
• Order events and use time words.
• Retell through oral language, pictures, drama and simple writing.
• Read and construct Foundation-level sentences.
• Develop story vocabulary and adapt an event or ending.
• Transfer comprehension skills to a new picture sequence.

Classroom Use

Suitable for a five-lesson whole-class unit, shared-reading follow-up, explicit teaching, literacy rotations, partner retelling, dramatic play, independent work and assessment evidence collection.

Formats, Pages and Answers

Includes a 59-page unit plan PDF, 17-slide editable PowerPoint presentation, 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz, 16 matching answer pages, colour activity and display pages, and black-and-white worksheets, assessment and rubric pages.

Book Not Included

The Mrs Wishy-Washy storybook and story text are not included. Teachers require lawful access to a copy for shared reading.

Digital Product and Licence

This is a digital teaching product; no physical item is supplied. Purchase grants a single-classroom licence to the purchaser. Files may not be shared, resold, redistributed, posted publicly, uploaded to shared libraries or used to create competing products. Additional teachers or classrooms require additional licences.