HARTFORD MANOR CP SCHOOL LITERATURE SPINE
TERM 1
TERM 2
TERM 3
All About Me
New Beginnings
The Great Outdoors
GUIDED READING
SUGGESTED CLASS
READS
FS1
Nursery rhymes – learn off by heart
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
e.g. Hickory Dickory Dock
Jasper’s Beanstalk
Rosie’s Walk
Dear Zoo
Where’s Spot?
The Tiger who came
to Tea
One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a
The Naughty Bus
fish alive
The Bad Tempered Ladybird
Miss Molly had a dolly
Alfie Outdoors by Shirley Hughes (series)
Farmer Duck
Pass the jam, Jim
Dinosaur Roar!
Ring ‘O Roses
You Must Bring a Hat
Old King Cole
Humpty Dumpty
FS2
Day & Night
Journeys
The Great Outdoors
Owl Babies
The Gruffalo
John Burningham author study
Pixar Day & Night short film
The Gingerbread Man
Mr Gumpy’s Outing/Car
Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
Each Peach Pear Plum
Oi, Get off our Train
Can’t you sleep little bear?
The Jolly Postman
Would you rather?
Goldilocks and the three bears
Don’t forget the Bacon
Billy’s Beetle
Little Red Riding Hood
The Little Red Hen
Three Little Pigs
Invitations
Letters
Meg and Mog
Dogger
Billy Button, Telegram
Boy
Albert and Little
Henry
Mog series
Five Minutes Peace
Christmas Unit: Father Christmas by
Raymond Briggs
Little Explorers
Jeanne Willis – author study
Changing
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
-Creating Plots
-Instructions (How
-Paragraph types
-Characterisation
-Creating settings
to trap a troll)
-Hooking your
-Non-
-Explanation texts
-Discussion
reader
(Should the goats
chronological
report
-Recount
cross the bridge?)
and dialogue
-Changing
paragraphs
(Plants)
Where the Wild things
Not Now Bernard
are
Elmer
Bog Babies
Mr Men series
Tadpole’s Promise
Mr Bird’s Nest and
the House Next Door
-Persuasion (Why is
Bog Baby
it good to live on
The Rainbow Fish
an island?- Katie
And Tango Makes
YEAR 1
Three
Morag)
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Bog Baby
Window- Jeannie Baker
London Bridge is Falling Down
Tadpole’s Promise
Katie Morag
Chicken Clicking
The Tin Forest (Helen Ward)
The First Slodge
The Flower (John Light)
The Bridge Clip (Literacy Shed)
Where the Wild Things Are
Poetry – The Morning Rush
Christmas Unit: The Owl who was afraid of
the dark
What Did I Look Like When I Was a
Baby?
Who’s in the Loo?
Dr Xargle
Reach for the Stars
Anthony Browne- author study
YEAR 2
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
-Creating settings
-Instructions
-Paragraph types
-Hooking your reader
-Non-chronological
-Characterisation
report
and dialogue
Where would we be without water?
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
-Recount
-Changing
-Explanation texts
-Persuasion
paragraphs
-Creating Plots
(Plants)
-Discussion
The Tunnel
The Cat that
Silly Billy
scratched
Dougal’s Deep Sea
The Mousehole Cat
Diary
The Twits
Where the River Meets
The Wishing Chair
the Sea
Julia Donaldson texts
Dogs In Space
The Tunnel
Where the River Meets the Sea
Toys In Space
Piggybook
Dougal’s Deep Sea Diary
Silly Billy
Jack and The Flumflum Tree
The Gorilla
The Great Kapok Tree
Zoo
Rio film clips
Jack and the Baked Bean stalk unit
Three by the Sea- Mini Grey
The Man on the Moon
Toy Story Clips (from film)
Mr Wuffles!
The Way Back Home
Three by the Sea
Joe and the
Dragonosaurus
‘Ada’s Ideas’ – the
biography of Ada
Lovelace the world’s
first computer
Journey- Aaron Becker
Christmas Unit: The Night Before Christmas
– Monkey Puzzle
programmer
The Paperbag Princess
by Robert Munsch
King and King by
Linda de Haan
TERM 1
TERM 2
TERM 3
GUIDED READING
SUGGESTED CLASS
READS
Why is Tutankhamen famous?
What are you made of?
Who were the real Croods?
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
-Creating plots (link to
Recount – diary
-Creating settings
-Persuasive
-Hooking your
-Instructions/
Egyptian Cinderella)
entries
-Characterisation
writing (Estate
reader
Explanations
-Paragraph types
Non-chronological
& dialogue
Agents)
- Changing
-Non chronological
-Recount-letters
paragraphs
report
reports
YEAR 3
Howard Carter’s Diary extracts
Over the Steamy Swamp by Paul
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Miu and the Pharaoh by Sally Wallace-Jones
Geraghty
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
Historical Storybooks: In Search of the Boy
Solo by Paul Geraghty
The Switch (Literacy Shed clip)
King: Tutankhamen by Anthony Masters
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Flotsam by David Wiesner
The Star Bearer by Dianne Hofmeyr
The Polar Bear’s Son by Lydia
The Pebble in my Pocket by Meredith
The Scarab’s Secret by Nick Would
Dabcovich
Hooper
The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
The Rainbow bear by Michael
Non-fiction
Professor Peabody & Sherman (film clips)
Morpurgo
Poetry: When I Heard the Music by Pie
Non-fiction
Corbett
Oliver Jeffers: Lost &
Charlotte’s Web by E
Found, The Day the
B White
Crayons Quit, Stuck,
Flat Stanley by Jeff
How to catch a Star,
Brown
The Heart & the Bottle
The Hodgeheg by Dick
Michael Foreman: One
King Smith
World
The Diary of a Killer
Dear Greenpeace by
Cat by Anne Fine
Simon James
The Sheep Pig by Dick
Allan Ahlberg: The
King Smith
Pencil, Burglar Bill
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory by
Roald Dahl
Matilda by Roald
Dahl
The Worst Witch by
Jill Murphy
Christmas unit: The Stick Man by Julia
The Invisble Boy by
Donaldson
Trudy Ludwig
The Reluctant Dragon
by Kenneth Grahame
Pippi Longstocking by
Astrid Lindgren
Frog in Love by Max
Velthuijs
What did the Romans ever do for us?
What is great about Britain?
What lives in Marshall’s Arm?
YEAR 4
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
-Creating settings
-Recount
-Creating plots
-Non-
-Changing
-Explanation text
-Paragraph types
(diary/letter)
(adventure story)
chronological
paragraphs
-Persuasive writing –
-Non-chronological
-Characterisation
report/Biography
-Hooking your
Why visit Marshall’s
report (Romans)
& dialogue
-Discussion (Is
reader
Arm?/Pettypool
(facing a fear)
Britain great?)
Warning story
leaflet
-Diary
The Door
Adventure at Sandy Cove
The Nightmare Man
The Papaya that Spoke
British author study/British classics
The Canal
Window by Jeannie
Varjak Paw by SF
Baker
Said
The Tear Thief by
The Firework Maker’s
Carol Ann Duffy
Daughter by Phillip
The Tin Forest by
Pullman
Helen Ward
The Butterfly Lion by
Sea of Dreams by
Michael Morpurgo
Dennis Nolan
Bill’s New Frock by
Cloudland by John
Anne Fine
Burningham
Desirable by Frank
Spells by Emily
Cottrell Boyce
Leon and the Place Between by Graham
Tom Crean’s Rabbit by Meredith
Mirror and Where the River Meets the Sea
Gravett
The Peppermint Pig by
Baker-Smith (intro only)
Hooper
by Jeannie Baker (link to Window by
Again by Emily
Nina Bawden
Diary of Dorkius Maximus by Tim Collins
Little Foxes by Michael Morpurgo
same author, a Y1 text)
Gravett
The Falcon’s Malteser
Across the Roman Wall by Theresa Breslin
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen
The Stinky Cheese Man
by Anthony Horowitz
(main text)
(main text)
Mr Skip and Tom’s Sausage Lion by
Non-chronological
The Invisible Dog by
Escape from Pompeii
Poetry: The Owl and the Pussy Cat,
Michael Morpurgo
reports (Romans)
Dick King Smith
The Orchard Book of Roman Myths
I Wish I’d looked after my teeth,
Characters from The Twits, Matilda,
Dictionary skills
The Legend of Captain
Romulus and Remus
Ning, Nang, Nong
Ratburger..
Link to Y3 & 4 performance if
Poetry: Imagine by Pie Corbett,
Give Peas a Chance
possible
personification poetry, Exaggerating poem,
by Morris Gleitzman
Descriptive (Tortoise), Surprise poem,
The Turbulent Term of
Lying poem
Tyke Tyler by Gene
Crow’s Teeth by Eoin
The Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence
Christmas unit: The Ice Palace by Robert
Colfer
Swindells
Kemp
TERM 1
TERM 2
TERM 3
Why race to space?
Is it right to invade?
Could I be a superhero?
GUIDED READING
SUGGESTED CLASS
READS
The Highwayman by
Sky Hawk by Gill
Alfred Noyes
Lewis
Aaron Becker texts:
The Midnight Fox by
e.g. Journey/Quest
Betsy Byars
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Creating plots
Journalistic writing
-Creating settings
Persuasive
Characterisation &
Discussion text
Paragraph types
– newspaper moon
-Hooking your
writing
dialogue
Recount and/or
landing
reader
(Lakeside leaflet)
Changing
biography
David Wiesner texts:
Tom’s Midnight
Non-
paragraphs
e.g. Tuesday,
Garden by Philippa
Diary/news recount
Hurricane, The 3 Little
Pearce
Pigs
Danny the Champion
Space poetry, figurative
Explanation texts –
language
space race
YEAR 5
Historical
chronological
Science fiction
opening/ending
report (Viking
Narrative poetry
Diary
Descriptive pieces
life)
Greek myth
Alien Landing by Pie Corbett
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Traction Man (series of 3 books) by Mini
One Giant Leap by Don Brown
Rabbits by Shaun Tan
Grey
The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon
How to Train your Dragon by
The Man who walked between the Towers
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by
Cressida Cowell
by Mordicai Gerstein
Christopher Edge
Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo
Too High-Icaraus by Pie Corbett
George’s Secret key to the Universe by Lucy
Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
The Golden Touch – Midas by Pie Corbett
and Stephen Hawking
The Warrior Troll by Rachael
White Wolves Myths & Legends – Wings
The Time & Space of Uncle Albert by Russell
Lindsay
of Icarus by Jenny Oldfield
Stannard
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank
Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief by
Skellig by David Almond
Cottrell Boyce
Rick Riordan
Weirdstone of Brisingamen/Elidor by Alan
The Hunter by Paul Geraghty
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken
(Basic skills unit)
of the World by Roald
Dahl
Kensuke’s Kingdom by
Michael Morpurgo
Cogheart by Pater
Bunzl
The Boy in the Tower
by Polly Ho-Yen
Clockwork by Phillip
Pullman
Emil & the Detectives
by Erich Kastner
The Ghost of Thomas
Garner
Kempe by Penelope
The Mystery of Harris Burdick by Chris Van
Allsburg.
Poetry: The Monster Muncher by Terry
Poetry: Is the Moon tired? By Christina
Dreary, Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head,
Rossetti, The Solar System by Clare Bevan,
The Myth of the Minotaur
Lively
Krindlekrax by Philip
Ridley
Hacker by Malorie
Earth by Chris Connell, The Family of the
Blackman
sun, The View from Space, Sailing out to
space, Nine Amazing planets.
Moondial by Helen
Christmas unit: The Lion, the Witch and the
Four feet, Two
Cresswell
Sandals by KL
Wardrobe or The Box of Delights
Williams
(alternatively, use Polar Express film – link
to Chris Van Allsburg work)
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War: Friend or Foe?
Could you survive in the Hartford
jungle?
Could you be the next Apprentice?
The Imaginary by
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Emily Gravett
Wonderstruck & The
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
Fiction
Non-fiction
The Flower by John
Invention of Hugo
Creating a setting
Non-chronological
Paragraph types
Instructions
Creating plots
Persuasive advert
Light
Cabret by Brian
(starting a fire)
(survival story)
(Hover Bike)
Cloudbusting by
Selznick
Explanation (The
Malorie Blackman
Pig Heart Boy by
Shirt Machine)
The Viewer by Gary
Malorie Blackman
Crew
Stormbreaker by
report
Characterisation &
Recount in the
Hooking your
Persuasive letter
dialogue
form of a letter
reader
(Survival project)
Changing
Biography – Alan
Discussion
paragraphs
Turing
(Should animals
Farther by Graham
Anthony Horowitz
be kept in zoos?)
Baker Smith
Holes by Louis
How to Live Forever
Sachar
(& sequel) by Colin
Millions by Frank
Thompson
Cottrell Boyce
The Promise by Nicola
His Dark Materials by
Davies
Phillip Pullman
Leon and the Place
The Marvels by Brain
between by Angela
Selznick
McAllister
The Girl of Ink &
Michael Morpurgo author study: Friend or
Journey to the River Sea by Eva
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan
Foe, Private Peaceful, An Elephant in the
Ibbotson
Dowd
Garden, Shadow…
King Kong by Anthony Browne
The Watertower by Gary Crew
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
(revision unit)
The Silence Seekers by Ben Morley
Memorial by Shaun Tan and Gary Crew
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Queen’s Hat by Steve Antony
Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
The Promise by Nicola Davies
The Piano (film clip)
The Shirt Machine, The Dangle, The Black
Hole & the Hoverbike film clips
Poetry: Dulce et Decorum est, The Soldier,
Stars by Kiran
Millwood Hargrave
WWI poetry
Artemis Fowl by Eoin
Christmas unit: The Greatest Christmas
The Breadwinner by
Present in the World by Michael Morpurgo
Colfer
Deborah Ellis
My Name is Mina by
David Almond
More able: The Lie
Tree by Frances
Hardinge
Welcome to Nowhere
by Elizabeth Laird