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Owl babies 


The Leif Thief


Hello Autumn


Tap the Magic Tree


Leaf Man


 Little Acorn


The colour monster goes to School

 

Room on the broom


Little Glow 


Rama and Sita


The Snow Thief

Stickman


A hibernation story


Eight Nights Eight Lights


The Jolly Christmas Postman

Maisie Jones and the dinosaur bones

The girl and the dinosaur

Dear Dinosaur – T.rex on tour


The Fossil Hunter


 Never let a diplodocus draw

Whatever next!


The Dinosaur that Pooped a planet

The Very Hungry Caterpillar


That’s my flower


The girl and her bugs


Superworm


The tiny Seed


Pip and Egg


The wooly bear caterpillar

Somebody swallowed Stanley


Tiddler


Night Pirates


Commotion in the Ocean


The Big book of blue


Little Turtle and the Sea


The storm whale

Under the Sea


Boo! The fishy mystery

Genre Mark making   Name recognition and writing Labels, lists and captions Write a simple sentence Sequence more the one simple sentence Instructions and lists

YEAR 1

Autumn 1

 

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

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The Three Little Pigs


The three little wolves and the big bad pig


Martha maps it out


Giraffes can't dance


Leo and the octopus


Ruby's worry


Tidy


Beegu

 

The Gingerbread Man


How to trap a wolf/elf


The gingerbreadman 2


The Snow Theif


Oi Frog


Look up


The lonely beast


The tree


Lost and Found

 

 

Goldilocks and the three bears


Goldilocks and just the one bear


The happiest Hanukkah


The go away  bird


Cloud Boy


My path


Somebody crunched Colin


Dogger

 

 

Cinderella


Cinderfella


The boy who painted the world


The Gecko and the Echo


Wander


The river


The lumberjack's beard


The tiger who came to tea

The Three Billy Goats Gruff


The three silly billies


The girl who planted trees


The ugly five


Coming to England


The whale who wanted more


The odd fish


Peace at last

 

Book linked to explorers


Little red readinghood


Keep on


You can't take an elephant on the bus


Splash


The magical yet


Clean up


The elephant and the bad baby

Genre

Innovated narrative (defeating the monster)

Factfile

 

Instructions

Journey Story

Instructions

 

Letter

 

Description (character and setting)

 

 

Non chronological report

Description (character and setting)

 

Description

 

Narrative

 

Letter

 

Recount

YEAR 2

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

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Geronimo

Steps for reading:

Unit 1: Non-fiction: Little People, Big Dreams
Unit 2: Non-Fiction: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things
Unit 3: Non-fiction: Everything under the sun
Unit 4: Fiction: Pinocchio
Unit 5:Non-fiction: Never get bored: draw and paint
Unit 6: Poetry: The Works

The Pirates are coming!

Steps for reading: 

Unit 1: Fiction: A world full of animal stories
Unit 2: Non-fiction: A Year full of celebrations and festivals
Unit 3: Poetry: A first book of animals
Unit 4: Fiction: Einstein the Penguin
Unit 5: Non- Fiction: Never get bored - draw and paint
Unit 6: Poetry: The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems

 

Grace Darling

Steps for reading:

Unit 1: Fiction: A World full of animal stories North America
Unit 2: Poetry: Words can fly
Unit 3: Poetry: Poems for 7 year olds
Unit 4: Non-fiction: 101 Science Experiments
Unit 5: Fiction: Wild Magic
Unit 6: Poetry: A First book of nature

Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

Steps for reading:

Unit 1: Fiction: Grimwood
Unit 2: Non-fiction: First Big Book of How
Unit 3: Poetry: Midnight Feasts
Unit 4: Fiction: A Year full of stories
Unit 5: Non-fiction: The Wild life of animals
Unit 6: Fiction: Secrets of the Forest

 

 

Jim and the Beanstalk

Steps for reading:

Unit 1: Poetry:  The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems
Unit 2: Non-fiction: first big book of why
Unit 3: Fiction: Leonara Bolt, secret inventor
Unit 4: Poetry: Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Unit 5: Non-fiction: DK Complete Children's Cookbook

Sally and the Limpet

Steps for reading:

Unit 1: Fiction: The Tunnel
Unit 2: Non-fiction: National Trust Out and About Bird Spotter
Unit 3: Poetry: 50 ways to score a goal
Unit 4: Fiction: The Real Boat
Unit 5: Non-fiction: My encyclopedia of very important dinosaurs
Unit 6: Poetry: The Shirley Hughes Treasury

 

Genre

Narrative

Report

Poetry

Narrative

Report

Information text

Recount

Instructions

Diaries

Instructions

Food Review

Informative

Narrative

Poetry

Recount

D&T write up

YEAR 3

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Text

Stone Age Boy

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth

 

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction - Harry the Poisonous Centipede
Unit 2 – Fiction - The One and Only Ivan
Unit 3 – Non-fiction -The LEGO Ideas Book
Unit 4 – Non- fiction - Explore
Unit 5 – Poetry - Welcome to My Crazy Life 
Unit 6 – Poetry - A World Full of Poems.

Escape to Pompeii

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 –Fiction- Rumaysa
Unit 2 – Fiction - The Wild Robot
Unit 3 – Non-fiction- The Usborne Beginner's Cookbook
Unit 4 – Non – fiction - Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas
Unit 5 – Poetry - Ted Hughes Collected Poems 
Unit 6 – Poetry - Cloud Busting

Romans on the Rampage

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 –Fiction- The Last Firefox
Unit 2 – Fiction - Charlotte's Web
Unit 3 – Non-fiction- The Wonders of Nature
Unit 4 – Non – fiction - An Anthology of Intriguing Animals
Unit 5 – Poetry - Hot Like Fire and Other Poems
Unit 6 – Poetry - Quick, Let's Get Out of Here

Last Polar Bears

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 –Fiction- Hello, universe
Unit 2 – Fiction – How to train your dragon
Unit 3 – Non-fiction- My encyclopaedia of very important science
Unit 4 – Non – fiction – My Very Important Human Body Encyclopaedia
Unit 5 – Poetry – A whale of a time
Unit 6 – Poetry – When poems fall from the sky

Paddington

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 –Fiction- The Day I fell into a fairytale
Unit 2 – Fiction – Varjak Paw
Unit 3 – Non-fiction- Hamza’s Wild World
Unit 4 – Non – fiction – Feather Flower Forest Fur
Unit 5 – Poetry – Weird, Wild and Wonderful
Unit 6 – Poetry – I am the seed that grew the tree.

Snow White in New York

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 –Fiction- The Wonder Brothers
Unit 2 – Fiction – Danny Ching Does Not Do Maths
Unit 3 – Non-fiction- There’s No Such thing as a silly question
Unit 4 – Non – fiction – The funny life of football
Unit 5 – Poetry – Pick and mix poetry
Unit 6 – Poetry – Fire burn, cauldron bubble.

Genre

Short story (portal)

Instructions

 

Writing to inform (leaflet)

Writing to entertain (setting descriptions, narrative, kennings, poetry)

Writing to persuade

Writing to entertain (character description)

Writing to inform (travel brochure)

 Writing to entertain (short story with setting)

Writing to entertain

Writing to inform (newspaper report/article)

Narrative - twist on a fairytale

YEAR 4

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Text

Indigo Wilde

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – Stories from Around the World 
Unit 2 – Non Fiction – The Travel Book
Unit 3 – Poetry – Gargling with Jelly
Unit 4 – Fiction - A World Full of Animal Stories (North America)
Unit 5 – Non Fiction – Atlas of Ocean Adventures
Unit 6 – Poetry – Poems from a Green and Blue Planet

Winter of the Wolves

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – When Life Gives You Mangoes
Unit 2 – Non Fiction – How to Spaghettify Your Dog
Unit 3 – Poetry – Werewolf Club Rules
Unit 4 – Fiction – Jimmy at the River School
Unit 5 – Non Fiction – Quiz Yourself Clever
Unit 6 – Poetry – Cherry Moon

The Iron Man

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – The Last Bear
Unit 2 – Non Fiction – Make Your Own Magic
Unit 3 – Poetry – Where Zebras Go
Unit 4 – Fiction – The Legend of Podkin One - Ear
Unit 5 – Non Fiction – F2 Ultimate Footballer
Unit 6 – Poetry – Over to You!

Hetty Feather

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – Viking Boy
Unit 2 – Non Fiction – Start to Cook
Unit 3 – Poetry – Happy Poems
Unit 4 – Fiction – Land of Roar
Unit 5 – Non Fiction – You Can Do Anything
Unit 6 – Poetry – Love that Dog
 

The Explorer

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – The Boy at the Back of the Class
Unit 2 – Non Fiction – A Day in the Life of a Caveman, a Queen and Everything in Between
Unit 3 – Poetry – Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book
Unit 4 – Fiction – The Songwalker
Unit 5 – Non Fiction – Artists Everyone Should Know
Unit 6 – Poetry – Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – Tales from Africa
Unit 2 – Non Fiction – 100 Forest School Activities
Unit 3 – Poetry – The Poetry Chest
Unit 4 – Fiction – The Girl who Stole an Elephant
Unit 5 – Non Fiction – Kids VS Adults Ultimate Quiz Book
Unit 6 – Poetry – Red Sky in the Morning Poet’s Warning

Genre

Character description

Innovated narrative (finding tale)

 Instructions

Descriptive setting

Innovated narrative (tale of fear)

Diary entry

Character description

Newspaper report (the giant arrives),

An alternative ending (defeating the monster)

Innovated writing (warning)

Writing to persuade

Recount

Descriptive setting

Innovated narrative (journey tale)

Letter

Innovated narrative (wishing take)

Instructions

Newspaper report (found golden ticket)

YEAR 5

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Text

Who Let the Gods Out?

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction – Between Worlds
Unit 2 – Non-fiction – Against the odds
Unit 3 – Poetry – Where my wellies take me
Unit 4 – Fiction – The Goldfish Boy
Unit 5 – Poetry – Wicked World
Unit 6 – Non-fiction – Knowledge Encyclopaedia: Space 

Space - the infinite lives of Maisie Day

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 -Fiction- Wonder
Unit 2 – Fiction - Secrets of a Sun King
Unit 3 - Non Fiction-A World Of Flavour
Unit 4 – Non-fiction - The Moon
Unit 5 -Poetry- A Poem for Every Night of the year
Unit 6 – Poetry - We are family 

 

Anglo Saxon Boy

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 -Fiction- The explorer
Unit 2 – Fiction – October, October
Unit 3 - Non Fiction-Coming to England
Unit 4 – Non-fiction – Three lionesses
Unit 5 -Poetry- The Highway Man
Unit 6 – Poetry – Tiger, Tiger burning bright

 

 

My name is River

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 -Fiction- Sky Song
Unit 2 – Fiction – The Nowhere Emporium
Unit 3 - Non Fiction- Magic your mind happy
Unit 4 – Non-fiction – A Romani Story
Unit 5 -Poetry- The way of the dog
Unit 6 – Poetry – Fia and the last snow deer

 

Treason by Berlie Doherty or National Trust's The Secret Diary of Thomas Snoop, Tudor Boy Spy

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 -Fiction- Kick
Unit 2 – Fiction – Ballet shoes
Unit 3 - Non Fiction- Mythologica
Unit 4 – Non-fiction – Sports Legends
Unit 5 -Poetry- Utterly Brilliant
Unit 6 – Poetry – Wonderland Alice in Poetry

King of the Cloud Forest

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 -Fiction- No Ballet shoes in Syria
Unit 2 - Non Fiction- Windrush child
Unit 3 – Non-fiction – The illustrated encyclopaedia of ugly animals
Unit 4 -Poetry- 100 best poems for children
Unit 5 – Poetry – bright bursts of colour

Genre

Writing to entertain (character profile,  narrative)

Writing to inform (letter, fact file, non chronological report, holiday brochure)

Writing to entertain (poetry, diary entries, newspaper report)

Writing to persuade (letters)

Writing to entertain (narrative, descriptive),

Writing to persuade (debate),

Writing to  inform (instructions, information text)

 

Writing to entertain (poetry, narrative with dialogue and plot)

Writing to inform (recount, letter/email)

 

Writing to entertain (nonsense poetry, setting description)

Writing to inform (non chron report, debate/persuasive writing, instructions)

Writing to entertain (epic poetry, playscript, narrative)

Writing to persuade (debate, information text, formal letter)

YEAR 6

Autumn 1

 

 

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Text

Floodland

 

Steps for reading: 

Unit 1 – Fiction: Saffiyah’s War
Unit 2- Non fiction: Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Unit 3 – Poetry: Digging for victory
Unit 4: Non fiction: survivors
Unit 5: Poems from the second world war

Journey to River Sea

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction: The Island at the end of everything
Unit 2- Non fiction: The Place for Me 

Black Powder

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Fiction: The House with Chicken Legs
Unit 2 – Non-fiction: Rise

Mystery of the London Eye

Mystery of the London Eye and school play

Steps for reading:

Unit 1 – Non Fiction: Marcus Rashford: You can do it
Unit 2 – Poetry: The Final Year
 

Genre

Adventure story

Residential recount

 

Diary entry

Poems linked to war

Letters

Description

Balanced argument

Short burst

Persuasive writing

Retell of Eyam story

Information text

Dialogue

Short burst

Character description

Summer 1: Alma suspense story, persuasive letter, leaflet, shortburst, eerie setting and poems

Summer 2: Roads End fiction with suspens, non chronological report, interview, monologue and dialogue