Long Term Plan for Literacy 2014/15
Year Group
Year 1
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Biography of the
Wright Brothers
Story of a journey
into the air
Rainbow grammarSimple sentencesSubject predicate
fullstop.
Punctuation capital
letter full stop
Question mark.
Connectives-and
Instructions how
to make
playground ride
Description of a
park
Story of a hero
Rainbow grammarsimple and
compound
sentences.
Punctuation capital
letter full stop
Question mark.
Connectives-and
Present and past
tense.
Information about
different types of
dinosaurs
Stories with
familiar settings
Rainbow
Grammarsimple and
compound
sentences.
Story/ setting
writing
Imaginative worlds
Instructions- how
to plant a seed
Explanation- life
cycles
On safari- story
What would they
see/ hear?
Shape/ animal
poems
Punctuation
ongoing
Year 2
Short storygetting lost
Instructions
Silly poetry
Rainbow Grammar:
simple sentencessubject, predicate
and full stop.
NC report
Explanation
Stories from
around the world/
traditional stories
Rainbow Grammar
punctuation
Question marks
and exclamation
marks.
Connectives
Adjectives of
size,shape,colour
Singular and plural
noun suffixes s
and es.
Capitalisation of
proper nouns and
personal pronoun
I.
Hero- biography
Superhero comics
Rainbow Grammar
Pronouns/proper
nouns and fronted
adverbials
Rainbow grammarSimple and
compound
sentences.
Compound
sentences
Connecting
adverbs
! to indicate
emotion.
Persuasive
Advertising
Letters, marketing
Long Lego Story
Recount
Rainbow Grammar
Past/present
tense
Adjectives and
adverbs
Rainbow
GrammarSimple and
compound
sentences.
Predicate:verb+ob
ject+adverb
Prefix-un
NC report
Character profile
SATS
Rainbow Grammar
Complex sentences
Rainbow
grammarSimple and
compound
sentences.
adverbials of
place.
Simple
prepositions of
place.
Expanded noun
phrases.
Historical recount
Rainbow Grammar
Different
Sentence
structures.
Compound and
complex
sentences.
Year Group
Year 3
Year 4
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Instructional text
Stories from
another culture
Poetry- Haiku
Persuasive writing
Information
posters
Play scripts
Explanations
Stories from
imaginary worlds
Newspaper
reports
Non-chronological
reports
Myths/ legends
Writing a holiday
brochure
Writing
instructions
Biography
Rainbow grammarComplex
sentencessubject,
predicate,
subordinating
clause punctuation.
Spelling- Plurals
and apostrophes
Recap.
Rainbow grammarsimple, compound,
complex sentence,
dialogue.
Spelling-Recap.
Gaudi project biographic story
Art gallery
descriptions
Instructions
Rules
Explanations of
sports
Neil Gaiman
stories - fantasy
world
Grammar-Parts of
a sentence.
Nouns, verbs
adjectives,
adverbs.
Spelling-Suffixes.
Rules and
exceptions. HF
words recap
Grammar- Types
of sentence.
Questions,
statement,
command.
Adverbial phrases.
Spelling- Suffixes
and prefixes.
Common
homophones,
contractions.
Newspaper
reports/ historical
report comparing
now and then
Diary entry- Goose
Fair
Diwali poetry
Instructions
linked to Viking
craft
Historical stories
Grammar:
Prefixes and
suffixes
Grammar:
Subject and
predicate
Fronted adverbials
Rainbow grammarsimple and
compound
sentences. subject
predicate
punctuation.
Coordinating
conjunctions.
Connectives.
Spelling-Suffixes
Letters making
other choices eg
ch making c..
Pen pal letters
Diary entry- life in
Nantes
Stories from a
different culture –
Kenya
Grammar:
Fronted adverbials
and intro to
relative clauses.
Rainbow grammarsimple and
compound
sentences. subject
predicate
punctuation.
Coordinating
conjunctions.
Spellinghomophones and
near homophones.
Letters making
other choices eg
ch making c..
Inventions
Information texts
Adverts
Persuasion
Grammar:
Comparative
conjunctions and
adjectival phrases.
Grammar:
Developing
punctuation and
use of compound
and complex
sentences.
Diary entries to
year 3 moving into
year 4.
Grammar:
Developing
punctuation and
use of compound
and complex
sentences.
Year 5
Year 6
Persuasive writingspace holiday
destinations
Inventionsreports,
instructions
Poetry- slave
rhymes, beat
poetry, hip hop
Diary entrysegregation,
speech writing
Central America
Fictiondescriptive writing
Report (Geog)
Creating
suspense/ tension
in narrative
Sherlock Holmes
FOCUS:
integrating direct
and reported
speech with
narrative
FOCUS: tension
techniques
FOCUS:
persuasion
FOCUS:
describing emotion
GRAMMAR:
fronted adverbials
GRAMMAR:
fronted adverbials
Newspapers/
interviews
Storytelling
GRAMMAR:
relative clauses
Adventure stories
Report
Poetry
Explanations
GRAMMAR:
relative clauses
Diaries
Debate/
discussion
Grammar:Linking
Grammar: Fronted
adverbs of time,
place and manner.
Non finite Verb
clauses.
Recap of plurals
and singulars
Grammar: Relative
clauses and use of
comparatives
adverbs
Passive and Active
voices
Grammar
Passive and active
voice, metaphor
and simile
Speech direct and
reported.
Graphic Novelstelling stories
through speech
Persuasive
advertising
Proposal diary of
progress, keeping
track
Romans- Fiction,
editing, redrafting
FOCUS:
addressing the
reader / writing in
a given style
FOCUS: formal
writing structures
GRAMMAR:
Consistent tenses
Alternative
endings
(Anthony
Horowitz)
GRAMMAR:
Consistent tenses