English Teaching Sequences
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Book List overview for Upper Key Stage 2
Yrs5 and 6
Charles Dickens: scenes from an
extraordinary life by Manning and
Granstrom
This book provides a perfect model for an
author study.
New April 2015
Grammar
Expanded noun phrases
Verbs – tense and form
Complex sentences including
non-finite constructions
1st and 3rd person
Cohesion within paragraphs
Dragonology from Templar Publishers
Formal, impersonal writing,
multi-clause sentences, noun
phrases, commas, brackets
and dashes
Non-chronological report
Range of text types within the book
New April 2015
Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill
Chronological report
A great book to use if you have a topic
theme of explorers or for writing in a
different way about a residential visit.
New April 2015
Animalium by Jenny Broom
Non-chronological reports
Embedded clauses, relative
clauses, subordination,
contrasting length of
sentences, modal verbs,
different ways of starting
sentences
Expanded noun phrases
including relative clauses,
passive, dashes, complex
sentences
This book would link well to science work
New
April 2015
My Secret War Diary by Marcia Williams
New April 2015
Adverbials, a range of
sentence constructions,
dashes
Persuasive Speech – text included with
sequence
New April 2015
Modal verbs, expanded noun
phrases, topic sentences
Where My Wellies Take Me by Michael
and Clare Morpurgo part 1
This sequence links well to the geography
curriculum, writing about a walk that
children have undertaken a number of
times
New April 2015
Range of punctuation, length
of sentences for effect, verb
choice
Where My Wellies Take Me part 2 is about
linking poetry to the walk.
This is a 2 week sequence
with a reading and poetry
presentation emphasis.
New April 2015
A Word in Your Ear by Tony Ross – short
stories
New April 2015
Paragraphs and cohesion,
expanding ideas across
paragraphs, narrative and
dialogue, sentence
construction, semi-colon
Incredible Edibles by Stefan Gates – a
science flavoured cook book
New April 2015
Securing/revising word
classes: noun, verb, adjective
and adverb
Brackets, dashes and commas
Imitating sentence
constructions
Informal style of writing, modal
verbs
101 Things To Do to Become a Superhero…or
evil genius by Helen Szirtes
New April 2015
Varjak Paw by S.F. Said
New April 2015
Expanded noun phrases
Semi-colons
Paragraphs and cohesion
2014
Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Semi-colons, hyphens, noun
phrases, power of three
Bethlehem by Carol Anne Duffy (poetry)
Adverbial phrase, clause,
semi-colon
Black and White by David Macaulay
Yr2 to Yr5
Adverbials, expanded noun
phrases
Car brochures
Hyphens, expanded nouns,
embedded clauses
Expanded noun phrases
Cloudbusting by Malorie Blackman (poetry)
Drove of Bullocks by PatrickGeorge (nonchron)
Ways to open sentences, noun
phrases, adverbials, range of
punctuation
Extreme Animals by Nicola Davies (nonchron report)
Noun phrases, multi-clause
sentences
How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes
Yr6
Adverbial phrases, commas to
mark boundaries of clauses,
clauses
Ice Bear by Jackie Morris
Sentence length, noun
phrases
Jungle Survival Handbook
Complex sentences,
adverbials, verb choice
Lion Journal by Caroline Franklyn (recount
with a range of forms)
Tenses, verbs, brackets,
dashes, relative pronoun,
relative clause
A Thief in the Village by James Berry
Speech, adverbial phrases,
sentence length, power of
three
The Princess Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy
Speech, clauses, sentence
openers, semi-colons
Ripley’s Mighty Machines (non-chron)
Relative clauses, relative
pronouns
The Secrets of Stonehenge by Manning and
Granstrom (chron report)
Complex sentences, colons
Survival at 40C Above by Debbie S Miller
(chron report)
Relative clauses, noun
phrases
Sequence can also be adapted for use with
Survival at 40 Below
The Tear Thief by Carol Anne Duffey
Prepositions, prepositional
phrases, adverbial phrases,
power of three
The Day The Crayons Quit (whole KS2)
Noun phrases, adjectives,
clauses, complex sentences
I am Cat by Jackie Morris (poetry)
Power of three, complex
sentences, clauses
The Usborne Illustrated Thesaurus
Antonym, synonym
Wallace and Gromit Cracking Contraptions
Passive, active, noun phrases
The Shadow Cage by Phillipa Pearce
Semi-colon, complex
sentences, suspense