Long Term Plan – ENGLISH & LITERACY
2014-15
Literacy
Year 1
Autumn 1
Stories and
narrative about
familiar settings –
Naughty Bus,
Dogger, Toy Story
Non-fiction:
features inc.
captions, & labels,
glossary, index;
Dictionary work
Edison: Why do
we play with
different toys as
we grow older?
(Hist, Geog)
Year 2
Traditional tales
Autumn 2
Poetry –Fireworks,
onomatopoeia
rhymes (recite &
rehearse)
Fairy tales – The
Snow Queen/
Frozen (visual
literacy)
Letters – Jolly
Christmas Postman
(inc. letter to Santa)
Spring 2
Instructions
Recount: Diary
format
Poetry – Starry
Night
(performance)
Edison: What
can we learn
about ur world
from stories? (DT Edison: Starry
& Sci)
Night (Arts)
Summer 1
Books by the same
author (author study
- Julia Donaldson
Summer 2
Narrative – fantasy
worlds (e.g. jungle,
space, underwater)
Information books –
Reports (presenting
facts)
Poetry – Acrostic
poems (linked to
fantasy worlds)
Edison: Why is
water so precious?
(Sci)
Edison: Where will we
go for a great day
out? (Hist, Geog)
Extended stories/
significant authors
Information texts
Edison: Hello, I am
new here; Bonjour,
je suis nouveau ici
(Geog, Sci)
Stories with familiar
settings
Instructions
Edison – Can
party food be
healthy? (Sci &
Geog)
Spring 1
Traditional tales
– The
Gingerbread
Man, The 3 Little
Pigs, Billy Goats
Gruff
Poetry- Really
Looking
Edison - Pride in
Place (Hist, Geog)
Different stories
by the same
author (author
study –Roger
Hargreaves : Mr
Men stories)
Nonchronological
reports
Explanations
Poetry – Patterns
on the Page
Poetry – The Owl &
the Pussy Cat
Edison – What is (riddles/rhymes/
the best way for
nonsense)
Mrs Armitage to
travel? (Sci, DT) Edison – Where do
from Spr 1
Bong trees grow?
(Arts)
Edison – How did
families have fun in
the past? –The
seaside (Geog, Hist)
Year 3
Year 4
Narrative- Stories
with familiar
settings The Storm
Instructions
Edison – How
does electricity
work? Bright
Sparks (Sci)
Edison – Who were
the greatest builders
in the world?
Newspapers –
formal language,
sentence structure
Spiderwick –
mystery story writing
Poetry: Railway
poems (patterns &
sequence, choral)
Edison: From a
Railway Carriage
(Arts) from Spr 2
Poetry performance
Playscripts
(conventions)
Edison links – Why
do we speak English
at school? (Hist,
Geog & Drama)
Edison – What
makes us like
other animals?
(Sci, Geog) from
Sum 1
Information and
Play scripts,
Report writing
Plays and
(Links with
Dialogue
Science Animals)
Poetry –
Poetry –
Calligrams and
Language play :
Shape
riddles and puns
Edison – Let’s go
Edison – The
on an adventure.
games children
Would we like to
play (Arts)
visit Guatemala?
From Spr 2
(Geog, Hist, DT)
From Spr 1
from Spr 2
Issues /
dilemmas –
Christophe’s
story
Edison - Should
we stop eating
chocolate? (DT)
from Spr 1
(author study –
Roald Dahl)
Information texts
Poetry- collected
poems of Grace
Nichols/ James
Carter
Edison: How do I
see? How do I
hear?
Adventure and
Mystery stories Ottoline and the
Yellow Cat
Authors & letters
(author study – Eoin
Colfer & Jill Murphy)
Edison – Are bugs
important? (Sciplants)
Edison – How can
we make living here
better for everyone?
Town planner
Narrative ‘Invasion’
text – historical
setting, imaginary
worlds
(author study – JK
Rowling)
Persuasive writing
Edison: What
happens inside us?
(Sci)
Poetry (from other
cultures) rehearse
and perform
Edison - a regional
study: Italy,
Germany, Holland or
Denmark (tour
guides
Year 5
Author study –
Non fiction
Michael Morpurgo: Recount writing
(Friend or Foe)
(diary, report)
Poetic style - word
play, rhyme,
metaphors
Year 6
Edison: Why would
someone build a
castle in England?
Why don’t we build
them now? (Hist)
Narrative genres
(mystery, familiar,
historical, sci-fi,
adventure,
legends and
traditional)
Biography/autobiography
Edison: What’s
out there? Out of
this world. (Sci)
Persuasive writing
Journalistic writing
Edison: Has there
ever been a better
time to live here?
Media scripts
(news & adverts)
Poetry – The
Highway Man
Instructional texts
Edison: What is it
made of?
Mysterious
materials (Sci)
Poetry – the
power of imagery
Fables, myths
and legends –
Pandora’s Box
Film narrative The Book
(traditional story) &
Magik Circus
Persuasion – letters,
debates & arguments
Plays (author study –
Shakespeare)
Poetry – Michael
Rosen/ Charles
Causley (poetic voice,
performance,
Edison: Do we make narrative)
the most of what’s
on our doorstep
(Sci)
Edison: Why do I live
here? Why do people
come here to live?
Why do people leave
where they were
born? (Geog, Hist)
Edison:
Fairground (DT)
Edison: The
Highway Man
(Arts)
Anne Frank
(diary/ narrative author study) :
Diary writing,
description,
persuasion,
imaginative
writing
SATS revision
(non-fiction)formal / informal
letter writing
(fiction) narrative (familiar
settings)
SATS revision (nonfiction) – persuasive
writing, discussion
writing
Poetry – The
Lady of Shallot
Edison: ‘Together
we can…’ (Geog)
regions of the UK
Edison: Why do
some creatures
no longer exist?
(Sci)
Edison: The lady
of Shalott (Arts)
Shakespeare’s
poems & sonnets
Edison: Minienterprise (DT)
Biography in a
bag - Copernicus