Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
‘Mischief’
Core Text:
‘The Twits’
‘Matilda’
‘Boy’
Complimentary Text:
Extracts from various
autobiographies
Year
7
Autumn 2
‘Book Talk’
Core Text:
Selection from a range
of modern fiction
‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ (2
terms)
Complimentary Text:
Selection from a range
of modern fiction
Spring 1
‘Scare’
Core Text:
Room 13
Vlad the Drac
Scary poetry
Spring 2
‘Scare 2’
Core Text:
Information books on
Vampires
Vampire facts
Complimentary Text:
Information books on
Vampires
Vampire facts
Writing Opportunities:
Text translation
Alternative endings
Character descriptions
Sentence structure
Extended vocabulary
Complimentary Text:
Room 13
Vlad the Drac
Scary poetry
Writing Opportunities:
Picture captions
Vampire jokes
Fact files
Instructional texts
Vampire poems
Building suspense
vocabulary
Reading Opportunities:
Non-fiction text layout
Retrieval of facts
Information text
features
Writing Opportunities:
Simple narrative
Personal recount
(autobiographies)
Writing questions
Speech bubbles
Writing Opportunities:
Extended narrative
Descriptive writing
(powerful verbs)
Extending sentences
(verb tenses)
Sentence structure
Reading Opportunities:
Character exploration
Role play
Reading Opportunities:
Personal reading
Reading for pleasure
Inference and
deduction
Prediction
Reading Opportunities:
Reading for pleasure
Use of language
Comprehension skills
Vocabulary exploration
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Asking and answering
questions
Voicing opinions (‘I
think...because...’)
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sequencing
Explanation
Dramatising stories
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Role play from stories
Expressing opinions
Summer 1
‘Mythical Creatures’
Core Text:
‘Little Mouse’s Big Book
of Beasts’
Percy Jackson (2
terms)
Complimentary Text:
Dr Who
Greek Myths
Writing Opportunities:
Top Trumps
Non-chronological
reports
Formal language
Organisation of nonfiction texts
Reading Opportunities:
Organisation of nonfiction text
Vocabulary (formal)
Comparing and
contrasting
Formality of language
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Spoken report
Formal language
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Presenting facts
Sharing jokes and
poems
Debate skills
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Summer 2
‘No Fear’
Core Text:
‘Little Mouse’s Big Book
of Fear’
(Transition Unit)
Complimentary Text:
School Prospectus
School and fear based
poetry anthologies
Writing Opportunities:
Information leaflet
Instructions
Connectives
Paragraphing
Caption/labels
Poetry (descriptive and
list)
Reading Opportunities:
Poetry (meaning,
inference and
deduction)
Personal choice
Capturing facts
Facts and opinions
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Commentary
Extended sentences
Making conversations
Interviews
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
The Storytellers
Space and Beyond
Core Text:
Aesop’s Fables
The Selfish Giant
Chaucer’s Tales
Complimentary Text
Greek Myths and
Legends
Year
8
Writing Opportunities:
Character profiles
Story settings
Story writing
Descriptive language
Introduction to
paragraphs with the 3
part story
Reading Opportunities:
Reading for meaning
Inference and
deduction
Reading for pleasure
Looking at the authors
viewpoint
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Reading aloud
Role play story
characters
Core Text:
Aliens Stole my U’pants
Non-Fiction Space book
‘The Iron Man’
Complimentary Text
Choose your own
adventure books
NASA website
Writing Opportunities:
Story consequences
Space poetry
Information poster
Story
beginnings/middles/
ends
Reading Opportunities:
Poetry reading
Fact retrieval
Information gathering
Key features of nonfiction texts
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Poetry reading
Group discussion
Working in a team
Spring 1
Spring 2
Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Shakespeare
Core Text:
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Based on the school production
‘Paper Tigers’
Complimentary Text:
Reviews
Poetry
Show programmes
Playscripts
Writing Opportunities:
Persuasive writing
Poetry
Text transformation
Script writing
Story retelling
Character descriptions
Alternative endings
Reading Opportunities:
Play reading
Acting out scenes
Understanding dialogue
Interpretation of vocabulary
Reading poetry
Summer 1
Summer 2
Noughts and Crosses
Core Text:
Noughts and Crosses
Harriet Tubman book
Journey to J’Burg
Help
Complimentary Text
Non-Fiction Apartheid
Poetry
Good vs bad tales
Writing Opportunities:
Apartheid factsheets
Poetry writing
Descriptive writing
Feelings
newspapers
Streams of
consciousness
Reading Opportunities:
Reading a novel
Social context of text
Author’s viewpoint
Alternative traditional
tales
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
The Production
Sharing viewpoints
Presentations
Reporting
Oration
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Newspaper reports
Layout of newspapers
Chronological reports
Headlines and subheadings
5 Ws
Paragraphs
Newspapers
Chronological reports
Retrieving information
Reading to an audience
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
Conflict
Core Text:
‘Private Peaceful’
‘War Games’
‘The Soldier and the Little Hen’
Complimentary Text:
WW1 Poetry anthology
WW1 frieze book
Wilfred Owen poetry
Year
9
Writing Opportunities:
Informal letters
Reflective writing
Diary entries
Poetry
Journals
Non-chronological reports
Reading Opportunities:
Poetry reading
Primary resources
Real life diaries
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Role play
Poetry reading
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Persuasion
Core Text:
‘Two weeks with the
Queen’
‘Snap Shot’
‘China Girl’
Complimentary Text:
Formal letters
Magazines
Speeches
Problem pages
Alternative endings
Writing Opportunities:
Story boarding
Planning
Writing own story
Formal letters
Persuasive posters,
adverts and speeches
Reading Opportunities:
Novels
Range of adverts
Persuasive speeches
Spring 2
Play Study
Core Text:
‘Across the Barricades’
‘Frankenstein’
Superscript Series
Summer 1
Summer 2
Shakespeare Graphic Novels
Core Text:
Romeo and Juliet
Complimentary Text:
Historical and
geographical
information background
texts
Complimentary Text:
Modern version
Graphic novel version
Picture book version
‘How to Make a Graphic
Novel’
Writing Opportunities:
Mind-mapping
Stream of
consciousness
Film review
Genre comparisons
Storyboarding
Reading Opportunities:
Playscript
Modern version
reviews
Writing Opportunities:
Script writing
Alternative plots
Skills of script writing
Text translation
Scene setting
Plot development
Reading Opportunities:
Play reading
Research skills
Inference
Quote finding
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Speech making
Oration
Reading out loud
advertising
Role play
Sharing ideas
Expression
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Comics
Nursery rhymes
Creating own graphic
novel
Storyboarding
Premise
Character descriptions
Onomatopoeia
Speech bubbles
Range of graphic novels
Character analysis
Story overviews
Debating opinions
Acting out graphic
novels
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Drama
Entry Level Media/work/Drama
Our Day Out
Holes
Assessment:
Entry Level reading and writing units: 3 & 7
Speaking and Listening Unit 17
Entry Level unit: Media writing unit 6
Speaking and Listening unit 16
Complimentary Text:
‘How to Survive at Camp Green Lake’
‘Our Day Out’ abridged version
Year
10
Writing Opportunities:
Character profiles
Formal letters
Leaflets
Information texts
Instructions
Scene/chapter summaries
Reading Opportunities:
Playscripts
Narrative
Understanding the writer’s viewpoint
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Oration
Expression
Drama
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Shakespeare
Entry Level Drama/reading for pleasure
Advertising Project
Macbeth
‘Apprentice’
Assessment:
Entry Level units: Reading for Pleasure unit 4.
Entry Level units: Work reading and writing 1 & 5
Unit 18 Speaking and Listening.
Assessment:
No assessment this term other than end of unit
task
Complimentary Text:
Complimentary Text:
Graphic novel version
Magazines
Orchard Books version
Adverts
Modern retelling
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Letters
Persuasive writing
Character profiles
Letter writing
Playscripts
Posters
Photo captions
Information texts
Scene summaries
Non-fiction layout and presentation
Alternative endings
Script writing
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Reading for meaning
Analysis of posters
Playscripts
Identifying non-fiction texts
Social and historical background
Scripts of adverts
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Oration
Presentation skills
Drama
Debating
Freeze frame/ hot seating
Product selection discussion
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Macbeth and Holes/Our Day Out can be done either in Autumn or Spring
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
th
19 Century Fiction
Functional Skills
‘Of Mice and Men’
‘Looking for Work’
Assessment:
Looking for Work ELC 1 - 3
Year
11
Complimentary Text:
19th Century America – non-fiction text
Social and economic history of America in the
1930s
Writing Opportunities:
Character profiles
Plot summaries
Persuasive writing
Descriptive writing (vocabulary selection)
Formal letter writing
Persuasive writing
Exam prep
Reading Opportunities:
Reading a classic novel
Reading aloud
Comprehension of historic and cultural influences
Understanding the author’s viewpoint
Examprep
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Presentations (Level 1 and 2 assessment)
Debating
Spring 1
Shakespeare
Functional skills
‘The Tempest’
‘Planning a Trip’
Gothic Genre
Functional Skills
‘The Woman in Black’
‘The Outsiders’
Assessment:
Planning a trip ELC 1 - 3
Assessment:
Exams for Level 1 and 2
Complimentary Text:
Playscripts
Poetry
Complimentary Text:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
The Simpsons
Writing Opportunities:
Story planning
Suspense writing
Onomatopoeia
Story boarding
Vocabulary selection
Writing to advise
Writing a balanced argument
Reading Opportunities:
Understanding a specific genre
Comprehension of complex storylines
Reading for pleasure
Writing Opportunities:
Imaginative narrative
Alternative endings
Script to narrative transition
Informal letter writing
Information texts
Exam prep
Reading Opportunities:
Script reading – character studies
Comprehension of text
Understanding Shakespearean language
Drama and role play
Exam prep
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Oration
Presentation (Entry Level 1 – 3 assessment)
Debating
Class discussion
Presentations (Level 1 and 2 assessment)
Instructional speaking
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
6th
Form
Year
1
Autumn 2
Travel/Journeys
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Issues
Magic and Mystery
Assessment:
Assessment:
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Reading
Discussion (EL3+ only)
Listening
Texts: Gulliver’s Travels/Treasure Island
Texts: Guilty (Barrington Stoke)
Texts: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
EL 1/2 Rabbit Proof Fence
EL 1/2
EL 1/2 Wuthering Heights
EL 3
Gulliver’s Travels/Treasure Island
EL 3
Stone Cold
EL 3
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Journey to the River Sea
Wuthering Heights
L 1/2
Gulliver’s Travels/Treasure Island
L 1/2
Curious Incident
L 1/2
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Bill Bryson
Wuthering Heights
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Packing list
Problem pages – writing to and replies from
Ballad of Bottom’s dream
Travel itinerary
Newspaper reports
Fairy poetry
Postcards
Letter writing
Narrative/viewpoint
Descriptive writing about a place
Storyboarding
Writing in 1st and 3rd person
Travel posters/leaflets/fact files/non-fiction text Questioning
Set design
Journal/diary entries
Advice pages
Posters
Persuasive writing/presentational features
Websites
Film trailers
Create own island
Film trailers
Reviewing
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Guided reading sessions
Guided reading
Poetry
Character profiles
Understanding the social and historical context
Non-fiction background – magic tricks
Glossary work
Magazines and newspaper problem pages
Play reading
Dictionary skills
Issue specific research – multimedia
Understanding authors viewpoint
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Persuasive speech about a holiday
Debates/presentations
Role play
Travel Rep interviews
Interviews/asking questions
Hot-seating
Role play/hot-seating/freeze frames
Characterisation
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Speaking
Reading
Texts: Kidnapped
EL 1/2
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Reading
Discussion (EL3+ only)
Texts: David Walliams
EL 1/2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Magic and Mystery
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Writing
Listening
Texts: Julius Caesar
EL 1/2
EL 3
Huckleberry Finn
EL 3
Face
EL 3
Julius Caesar
L 1/2
Time Machine
L 1/2
Animal Farm
L 1/2
Julius Caesar
Travel/Journeys
6th
Form
Year
2
Spring 2
Issues
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year
Key Stage 3, 4 and 5 English Long Term Plan
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Speaking
Reading
Texts: The Traveller (Barrington Stoke)
EL 1/2
EL 3
Swallows and Amazons
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Reading
Discussion (EL3+ only)
Texts: Guilty (Barrington Stoke)
EL 1/2
EL 3
Daz 4 Zoe
Summer 1
Summer 2
Magic and Mystery
Assessment:
OCR Cambridge Progression Award EL1-L2
Writing
Listening
Texts: Hamlet
EL 1/2
EL 3
Hamlet
L 1/2
L 1/2
L 1/2
Travel/Journeys
6th
Form
Year
3
Journey to the centre of the Earth
Spring 2
Issues
1984
Hamlet
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Writing Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Reading Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Sp & Li Opportunities:
Personal ICLP targets will be a focus throughout the year