Room on the Broom Unit Plan F–1

Use Room on the Broom as a springboard for a rich week of oral language, reading response and emergent writing. This Foundation–Year 1 English unit helps children identify characters and setting, explain a problem and solution, sequence key events, retell a narrative, notice clues about feelings and connect a story with their own experiences.

The unit moves from explicit whole-class teaching into active retelling, collaborative play, drawing and differentiated written response. Colour displays, sequencing cards, puppets and a story-path game support visual and oral learners. Print-friendly worksheets provide supported, core and extension practice. The Windy-Day Rescue assessment uses a new mini-story so teachers can check whether students transfer their story-understanding skills beyond the focus text.

Book not included: This is a companion teaching resource. Use it alongside a legally obtained copy of Room on the Broom.

What's Included

• 30-page unit plan PDF with 29 resource and answer pages
• 16-slide editable presentation
• 22-slide editable quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• Room on the Broom Story Elements colour display
• Story Sequence Cards and Retell Puppets
• Story Path Board Game and prompt cards
• Sequence, story elements and story-map worksheets
• Supported and extended sentence-building worksheets
• Read, Trace and Draw and Read and Write worksheets
• Character Feelings and Connections worksheet
• Two-page My Retell Mini-Book
• Word search and answer page
• Two-page Windy-Day Rescue assessment with two answer pages
• Five-level rubric

Learning Focus

• Share ideas and preferences about literature
• Identify characters, setting, problem and solution
• Sequence and retell important events
• Use picture and language clues to discuss character feelings
• Build, trace and write simple story sentences
• Make text-to-self connections

Classroom Use

Use the editable presentation for whole-class modelling, the colour resources for shared talk and small-group retelling, and the differentiated worksheets for independent or supported literacy rotations. Finish with the editable quiz, the fresh mini-story assessment and the five-level rubric. Teach the materials across approximately five literacy sessions or select them flexibly for intervention, consolidation or extension.

Curriculum Alignment

• Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9EFLE01
• Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACELT1575
• Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2EFLE01
• NSW: ENE-OLC-01, ENE-UARL-01
• Western Australian Curriculum: WAPELICO1
• New Zealand Curriculum: NZ-Y0-ENG-R-CA-CR-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-CA-CR-1, NZ-Y0-ENG-R-C-SDC-1, NZ-Y1-ENG-R-C-SDC-1
• United Kingdom Curriculum: UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-R-C, UK-KS1-Y1-ENG-SPK
• Common Core: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.9, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.8, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.7
• TEKS: TEKS-ELAR-GK-5E, TEKS-ELAR-GK-6A, TEKS-ELAR-GK-7A
• Ontario: CAN-G1-LANG-C1.7, CAN-G1-LANG-C3.6, CAN-GK-LANG-OE12, CAN-GK-LANG-OE11

Product Details

• Year levels: Foundation and Year 1
• Subject: English
• Formats: PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX
• Counts: 30-page unit plan, 16-slide presentation and 22-slide quiz
• Answers: included for closed-response worksheets, word search and assessment

Digital product: No physical item is supplied. Purchase grants one teacher/classroom licence. Files may be printed and displayed for the purchaser's own students but may not be shared, resold, posted publicly or redistributed. The storybook itself is not included.