year 1/2 english
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autumn blocks
using three wonderful texts, the suitcase, rabbityness and the visitor, make predictions and respond to characters' feelings. identify sentence types and learn about conjunctions. create a character and write a story.
stories on a theme: feelings
enjoy reading diary of a wombat and waiting for goliath in this lovely block. learn to spell and capitalise the days of the week. look at the use of first-person and find and use past tense verbs. write postcards, letters and diary entries.
recounts: animal diaries
inspired by rain before rainbows, write rhyming couplets and poems. practise adding suffixes and create noun phrases. read a range of poetry, appreciate artwork by van gogh and write poems in response.
poems on a theme: rainbows and colours
using the story blanket, wolfy and other stories explore traditional tales and fables. learn about the past tense and conjunctions and how to use these to write your own exciting tale.
traditional tales and fables: the story blanket
enjoy reading letters and postcards in three different texts: dear dinosaur, dear postman and dear father christmas. look at sentence types and learn how to add adjectives, adverbs and prepositions to enhance descriptive writing. write letters and postcards for a range of purposes.
letters and postcards: letters
explore the wonderful nonsense poetry of edward lear. create noun phrases to write about characters and settings from the poems. plan, draft and write a story sequel to the owl and the pussycat.
poems by the same poet: edward lear
spring blocks
explore the classic stories of beatrix potter. compare stories and write imaginatively in response. learn about verb tenses and revise sentence punctuation. sequence events from two bad mice and plan and write a version of their own.
classic fiction: beatrix potter
identify features of non-fiction texts and find out information about incredible creatures. revise sentence types and use subordinating conjunctions to add information. research, draft, write and edit a blog post.
information texts: incredible creatures
explore the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of the caribbean through the wonderful poetry in a caribbean dozen. grammar includes adding suffixes and writing descriptively using adjectives and adverbs. be inspired to write a poem about a pet and an autobiography!
poems on a theme: caribbean poetry
enjoy three delightful picture books, the invisible, the night gardener and last stop on market street. learn spelling rules for adding prefixes and suffixes. be inspired to write a story using vivid descriptive language.
modern fiction: contemporary picture books
starting with emily gravett's beautiful books, tidy and too much stuff, explore instructional language and write instructions for improving the classroom and school environment. study sentence types and verb tenses.
instructions: cleaner world
read and respond to a selection of poems about houses and homes. use adjectives and adverbs to enhance description and suffixes to create rhymes for poems about monsters. write poetry about a dream home.
poems on a theme: homes and houses
summer blocks
read and enjoy contemporary american picture books including where the wild things are and it's a book. revise conjunctions and verb tenses before writing a story about their own fantastic adventure.
stories on a theme: picture books from the usa
using an interview with a tiger, learn more about a range of animals, find information, make notes and create fact files. revise sentence types and practise writing descriptively before writing a class information book.
information texts: interviews
enjoy and explore valerie bloom's wonderful animal poems. read and write rhyming poems, compose a kenning and write a poetry appreciation. add description using adjectives and adverbs and revise sentence punctuation.
poems on a theme: animals
read and enjoy several short stories about betsey biggalow. make predictions and write creatively about characters and settings. learn how to use subordinating conjunctions and revise verb tenses before writing a short story.
stories by the same author: malorie blackman
using food-focused stories as inspiration, write instructions linked to the characters and themes. revise commas in lists and explore sentence types. compare the texts read and write a book review.
instructions: food stories
explore the beauty of night through the wonderful moon by britta teckentrup. compose acrostic poems and rhyming couplets using adjectives and adverbs for description. revise singular and plural spelling rules.
