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, Clarice Bean,
Guided reading and storytime texts include a selection from - The Hundred Decker Bus, Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh, Willy the Wimp, The creation story, non fiction texts including Bonfire Safety and Advent, Voices in the Park, The First Christmas. 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.
English Spring
Reading
Class Novel - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, George's Marvellous Medicine
Guided reading texts include - Non fiction topic texts, Wild, Snow Tales, Flood!, Traction Man, Biographies of famous scientists - e.g. Dunlop, McAdam, Macintosh.
Grammar & Punctuation
- Tenses - regular and irregular past tense, present tense
- Apostrophe of omission - contractions
- Word classes - verbs, adverbs revisited
- Comparative and superlative adjectives - adding er and est to root words
- Sentence types - exclamations, recap 4 types
- Adding suffix to turn adjectives into nouns - ness
Spelling and phonics
Set 3 phonics
6 Red words per week to learn.
RWInc spelling programme. Book 2A 1 unit per week: (6 unit words to learn per week)
Unit 11 - the o sound spelt a after w and qu
Unit 12 - adding suffix ed (1)
Unit 13 - adding the suffix ed (2)
Unit 14 - adding the suffix ed (3)
Special focus contractions
Book 2B
Unit 1 - the r sound spelt wr
Unit 2 - adding the suffix er/est (1)
Unit 3 - adding the suffix er/est (2)
Unit 4 - adding the suffix er/est (3)
Unit 5 - the ee sound spelt ey
Unit 6 - adding the suffix ness
Writing
Planning writing - structure
Character description
Book Review
New chapter
Diary
Fact File
Biography - McAdam, Dunlop, Macintosh
Handwriting
Skills to be developed - writing stamina, planning & rehearsing, holding a sentence, editing and improving using authors vocab
English Summer
Reading
Class Stories - Traditional Tales - Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk. The Day the Crayons Quit.
Guided reading texts include - Non fiction topic texts, Traditional tales including Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
Grammar & Punctuation
- Noun phrases - recap
- Adding suffixes to make adjectives - ful, less
- Plurals
- Homophones
- Sentence types - revisit commands and exclamations plus recap all 4 sentence types
- Adding suffix to turn adjectives into nouns - ness
- Possessive apostrophes
Spelling and phonics
Set 3 phonics - revisit + tion, cious, s used for zh sound
6 Red words per week to learn.
RWInc spelling programme. Book 2B 1 unit per week: ( 6 unit words to learn per week)
Unit 7 - adding the suffix ness (2)
Unit 8 - words ending in le
Unit 9 - words ending in el
Unit 10 - words ending in al
Unit 11 - adding the suffix ful
Unit 12 - adding the suffix less
Unit 13 - adding the suffix ment
Unit 14 - words ending in tion
Unit 15 - adding the suffix es
Writing
Planning writing - story structure, non chronological report - subheadings
Non - chronological reports (topic work)
Character description
Story openings
Story Settings
Tradditional Tale with a twist - alternative endings
Letter writing
Poetry 'Through the Window'
Handwriting
Skills to be developed - writing stamina, planning & rehearsing, holding a sentence, editing, using story phrases (Authors voice) in own writing to upscale