English
Core Books and Poems
We have introduced core books and poems this year - see chart below. These are books and poems that we will read and re read to enable the children to develop a broad and balanced repertoire of good quality texts.
CORE BOOKS | Reception | Year 1 | Year 2 |
Traditional Tale | Three Little Pigs | Jack and the Beanstalk | Hansel and Gretel |
Julia Donaldson story | Super worm | The Snail and the Whale | A Squash and a Squeeze |
Classic text | Peace at Last | Dogger | Hairy Maclary |
Diverse text | And Tango Makes Three | Shine | The New Small Person |
Text that promotes one of the 12 values in the RESPECT code | The Lion inside | The Selfish Crocodile | The Dot |
POEMS | Reception | Year 1 | Year 2 |
Nursery Rhyme | Polly Put the Kettle On | 10 Green Bottles | Jack and Jill |
Michael Rosen Poem | Lunchtime | Do I Know You? | The Book |
Nonsense Poem | Hey Diddle Diddle, | On the Ning Nang Nong | Strict (No breathing in class) |
Alliterative Poem | Peter Piper | Tim the Terrifying Tiger | Slithery, Slidy, Scaly, Old Snake |
Poem that promotes one of the 12 values in the RESPECT code | Look After Your Friends, | Kind Hearts are the Gardens | Aim High to the Sky |
The writing cycle - we use quality texts from our reading to 'inspire' our writing.
English Autumn
Reading
Class novel - Mrs Armitage on Wheels
There are also 3 RWInc guided reading sessions weekly
Grammar & Punctuation
- Capital letters - start a sentence, names, I
- Question marks, exclamation marks, full stops
- Commas in a list
- Word classes - adjectives, nouns, noun phrases, verbs, adverbs
- Tenses - progressive 'ing' tense
- Conjunctions - coordination, subordination
- Sentence types - questions and commands
Spelling and phonics
Y1 recap - prefix 'un', compound words, plurals, suffix ed, ing, syllables, rhyme, vowel sounds - long / short, consonant sounds (stretchy and bouncy)
Set 2 phonics followed by set 3.
6 Red words per week to learn.
RWInc spelling programme. Book 2A 1 unit per week ( 6 unit words to learn per week):
Unit 1 - The or sound spelt a before l and ll
Unit 2 - soft c
Unit 3 - adding the suffix y (2)
Unit 4 - adding the suffix y (2)
Unit 5 - adding the suffix ly
Unit 6 - the n sound spelt kn and gn
Unit 7 - the igh sound spelt y
Unit 8 - adding the suffix ing(1)
Unit 9 - adding the suffix ing (2)
Unit 10 - the j sound
Unit 11 - the o sound spelt a after w and qu
Writing
Recounts
Story - different point of view
Character description
Description of activities
Instructions
Poetry
Skills to be developed - writing stamina, planning & rehearsing, holding a sentence, proofreading, editing and developing success criteria.