Hampton Infant and Nursery School
English 2014 – Curriculum planning for Key Stage One
AUTUMN TERM
Fiction
Year 1
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Stories in familiar settings
Text: Friends by Rob Lewis (Guided Reading)
Labels, lists and signs
Text: The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Armitage
Songs and repetitive poems
Text: Poetry by Michael Rosen (with plan)
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
Not a stick by Antoinette Portis
Room on the Broom Donaldson and Scheffler
Commotion in the Ocean by Andrae and Wojtowycz
If you should meet a Crocodile collected by Pie Corbett
Description:
Description:
Description:
Read the story of Knuffle Bunny and Dogger; discuss
special toys and settings. Practise forming upper & lower
case letters. Use capital letters for names & to start
sentences.
Imagination & mystery are key to engaging chn in writing
lists & designing signs. Chn learn about the features of
labels & lists, descriptive writing & designing Wanted
Posters! Chn become detectives & find information from
other people's writing.
Chn write their own sea creature and wild animal poems. Create
lists and poems about what they love and hate!
Grammar focus:
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use capital letters for the names of people, places,
days of the week, etc.
Stories with repeating patterns
Text:
Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
We’re going on a Bear Hunt by Rosen and Oxenbury
Description:
Children will read and discuss Peace at Last and ‘the Bear
Hunt’ journey. They will learn a repeated refrain orally
and then adapt this to create their own individual
sentences using this pattern and adjectives, focussing on
writing in sentences.
Grammar focus:
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and
a full stop, a question or exclamation mark.
3. Use grammatical terminology
Grammar focus:
Grammar focus:
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use capital letters for the names of people, places, days of the
week, etc.
1. Begin to write complete sentences
2. Use capital letters at the start of a sentence and a full
stop, exclamation or question mark at the end.
Information texts
Poems with Pattern and Rhyme
Text:
Text:
The Usborne Book of Big Machines ISBN 97807
46099094
Various Transport Books and Internet
Cats Ahoy by Bently and Field
Assorted poems and rhymes including
Down behind the Dustbin by Michael rosen
Peepo by Ahlberg
Slide down the Rainbow collected by Pie Corbett
Description:
Use simple information texts to find out all about big
machines and what they can do. Begin to learn about the
structure of non-fiction texts and how they are different
to fiction. Make up a fantasy vehicle and write labels and
captions to describe it.
Description:
Grammar focus:
Motivate chn to talk about humorous poems & stories & get
them writing! Chn take part in skipping/chanting poems &
compose their own verses to poems that include repetition. Chn
perform verses they have memorised.
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use capital letters for the names of people, places,
days of the week, etc.
3. Use grammatical terminology
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use capital letters for the names of people, places, days of the
week, etc.
Grammar focus:
Fiction
Stories in familiar settings
Text:
Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers by Mairi Hedderwick
Katie Morag Delivers the Mail by Mairi Hedderwick
A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy
Description:
Explore characters through Mairi Hedderwick’s Katie Morag
books, focusing in particular on the two grandmothers; Grannie
Island and Grannie Mainland. Generate adjectives to describe
them and connectives to extend and develop sentences.
Use Katie Morag Delivers the Mail to focus on writing a
character’s thoughts and dialogue between characters.
Explore familiar settings through Margaret Mahy’s story A Lion
in the Meadow. Chn generate ideas and plan a story about an
animal that lives in their house under the stairs. There is a focus
on using simple punctuation and story problems and solutions.
Grammar focus:
AUTUMN TERM
Non-Fiction
Year 2
Poetry
Postcards & Letters
Text:
Songs and repetitive poems
Text:
John Patrick Norman McHennessy by John Burningham
Dear Teacher by Amy Husband
The Works chosen by Paul Cookson
Description:
Be inspired to write letters with fantastic excuses by
reading John Patrick Norman McHennessy by John
Burningham. Create an illustrated letter describing an
amazing adventure based Dear Teacher by Amy Husband.
Find out about telegrams & emails.
Grammar focus:
1. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including
capital letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks
2. Learn how to use sentences with different forms:
statement, question, exclamation, command.
Description:
Read and enjoy poems with repeating patterns. Then write your
own about what you see when walking to school, focussing on
using fantastic adjectives. Look at patterns in songs by learning,
singing, writing and performing rounds.
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify, e.g.
adjectives to describe nouns
2. Use and understand grammar terminology
1. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including capital
letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks
2. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: statement,
question, exclamation, command.
Traditional Tales
Text:
Aesop’s Fables
Description:
Explore the fables: The Ant and the Dove, The Hare and the
Tortoise and The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Explore dialogue between characters: write a conversation
between the characters. Write a new version of The Boy Who
Cried Wolf, with a new setting and central characters.
Look at compound sentences and storytelling skills. Generate
ideas for writing a new fable.
Grammar focus:
1. Co-ordination: use conjunctions (and, or, but) to join simple
sentences
2. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including capital
letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks
3. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: statement,
question, exclamation, command.
Information texts
Text:
Dogs by Emily Gravett
Matilda’s Cat by Emily Gravett
Description:
Kick starting this unit about pets, chn read Dogs and
Matilda’s Cat. They will compare these books to
information texts before researching and creating their
own information pages on an unusual pet!
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify,
e.g. adjectives to describe nouns
2. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, incl. capital
letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks
3. Learn how to use sentences with different forms:
statement, question, exclamation, command.
Traditional poems for young children
Text:
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear
Description:
Read, enjoy and learn by heart, Edward Lear’s wonderful
nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat. Find out about
Edward Lear and explore some of his limericks. Read limericks
written by other people. Have fun writing a limerick with support.
Grammar focus:
1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify, e.g.
adjectives to describe nouns
2. Use and understand grammar terminology