English Teaching Sequences Key Stage 1
Text
Book list
Year 1 and 2 sequences are suitable for
both year groups unless otherwise stated in
brackets
Penguins by Emily Bone – Yr2
Non-chronological report
New April 2015
Grammar Focus in the
sequence
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
New April 2015
Capital letters, full stops,
exclamation marks, past
tense, complex sentences
Lord of the Forest by Caroline Pitcher
Speech, identification of
verbs and verb choice,
noun phrases and
prepositional phrases
Suitable for Yr2/3
New April 2015
Oi Frog by Kes Grey for Yr1
New April 2015
Complex sentences
Verbs – past and present
You could also teach
simple sentences through
this book although this
has not been included in
the sequence
Securing understanding of
a sentence, questions and
rhyme
Now you Know Science: Hot and Cold
(other titles in series: Bright Light, Move it!,
It’s Electric, What’s it Made of?, Magnet
Magic)
New April 2015
Simple sentences
Simple subordination
Questions
Tense: simple present and
present progressive
Labels and captions
Don’t Spill the Milk by Stephen Davies and
Christopher Corr for Yr1
New April 2015
Capital letters, full stops,
exclamation marks
Using ‘and’ to join clauses
Knights from the Leapfrog Learners series for
Yr1
New April 2015
Simple sentences
Capital letters, full stops
and finger spaces
2014 Sequences
Augustus and his Smile by Catherine Rayner
Capital letters and full
stops
Adjectives and noun
phrases
The Boy Who Cried Ninja by Alex Latimer
Yr2
Speech
Dino Dinners by Manning and Granstrom
Past tense, present tense
The Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards
Yr2/3
Speech, noun phrases
Fatou, Fetch the Water by Neil Griffiths
Questions and question
marks, speech and noun
phrases, compound
sentences
How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle
Robinson (instructions)
Verbs, questions and
question marks,
exclamation and
exclamation marks,
commands
What I Like! Poems for the very young by
Gervaise Phinn. Poetry
There’s a Triceratops … by QED Publishing
Expanded noun phrases,
apostrophe for contraction,
capital letters, question
marks and full stops.
Use of prepositions
It’s My Birthday by Helen Oxenbury
Yr1
Using ‘and’, punctuating
sentences
Knock, Knock Open the Door by Michaela Morgan
FS/Yr1
Punctuating sentences
using full stops, question
marks and exclamation
marks, using and to join
sentences
Lunchtime by Rebecca Cobb
Using a range of
punctuation, speech
Dear Mother Goose by Michael Rosen
Yr1
Range of punctuation in
sentences
No-Bot, the Robot with no Bottom by Sue Hendra
Range of punctuation and
sentence forms
On the Road by Susan Stegall (poetry)
FS/Yr1
Punctuation
Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton
(Yr2)
Expanded noun phrases,
commas in lists, speech
Previously by Allan Ahlberg
Yr2
Verbs, noun phrases,
varying verb form
Splat Says Thank You by Rob Scotton
Yr2/3
Speech and subordination
using when
Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris (poetry)
Noun phrases
The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward
Yr2
Past tense, noun phrases,
verbs
The Woods by Paul Hoppe
Adjectives, noun phrases ,
starting sentences in
different ways
The Train Ride (poetry)
Yr1
Beginning to punctuate
What do you do with a tail like this? By Steve
Jenkins
(non-chron)
Subordination, questions
and question marks,
punctuating sentences
What happens when…?
Questions and question
marks, series of sentences
Your Local Area: Transport by Ruth
Thomson(non-chron)
Punctuating sentences