Subject: English
Subject Overview 2016-2017
F.S.
A1
A2
Shared texts- I am too
small for school, 1st day at
school, not fair won’t share,
Mr Big, Can’t, Shan’t Won’t,
Bumpasaurus, Cottonwool
Colin, Non-fiction and fiction
linked to- People who help us
and healthy eating
- Showing an interest in
books, environmental print
Phonics (phase 1 and 2)
developing segmenting and
blending skills. Also looking at
grapheme/phoneme
correspondence
- Exploring stories and
identifying favourites and
sharing opinions
- Giving meaning to marks and
beginning to apply phonic skills
- Writes name, captions and
labels
Shared texts- We’re going
on a Bear Hunt, The Jolly
Postman, The Lost Bear, I
love you Blue Kangaroo, Nonfiction texts- Celebrations
and Christmas, instruction
texts.
- Suggesting how a story
might end
- Continues a rhyming string
- Hears initial sounds
- Can segment and blend with
growing accuracy
- Links sounds to letters
- Gives meaning to marks to
share and record ideas
- Joins in repeated refrains
-Enjoys rhyme and
alliteration
- Describes main events,
characters
- Beginning to write simple
sentences
- Beginning to use and apply
phonic skills
- Uses recognisable letters
Y1
Class Books:
The Tiger Who Came to
Tea (local area/ home
focus)
- Mr Leon’s Paris (Paris
focus)
- Charlie and lola- We
Completely Must go to
London (London Focus)
- Tom and Lucy go to the
seaside (seaside focus)
- The Tunnel
Y2
Curriculum Team: English
Y3
Class book: Tiddler
Miranda the Explorer
Class Books: Penguin Book of
Myths and Legends(Egypt)
Reading focus:
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Decoding words
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Summarising
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Skimming and
Scanning
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Reading for
pleasure
Writing
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Narrative – writing
stories related to
Writing
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Class Books: Tough Boris
How I became a pirate
Narrative- Dinosaurs Love
Underpants, role-play
work
Class Book: When Santa comes
to Sheffield.
Reading focus:
Decoding words
Inference: reading between
the lines
Skimming and Scanning
Reading aloud
Dictionaries – skill based
activities (final weeks)
Writing
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Myths and
Legends
Narrative
Descriptive
Writing
Instructions
Persuasion
Y4
Class Book:
Marvellous
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Y5
George’s
Non-chronological
reports
Narrative
Diary entry
Mission log
Newspaper report
Play script Recount Narrative Y6
Class Book: The war
horse
Writing
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recounts
diary entries
newspapers
fictional
narrative
persuasive
writing
Recount – What chn have
done over the holidays
(initial assessment).
Narrative (description,
retelling the story,
character/ feature focus,
roleplay) –Assessment
(The Tiger who came to
Tea)
POETRY –dinosaurs
Look at repetition,
structure, similes
Rhyme
Labels, list and captions –
Christmas list, dinosaur
label and caption, captions
for dinosaurs in different
areas.
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Assessment
– writing a
description
of a dinosaur.
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Narrative:
Traditional Tales
Writing letters
Local area
description.
Poetry
Writing
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Poetry
Persuasion
Information texts
Descriptive
writing
Reports
Adverts
Class book: The Water Horse
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Narrative
Recount
Poetry
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Persuasive writing
Narrative
Poetry
Recount
Class Book: Boy in the
striped Pyjamas
Reading focus –
skimming and scanning.
Writing
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persuasive
writing
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narrative
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diaries
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newspapers
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arguments
Subject: English
SP1
SP2
Shared texts- The
World came to my place
today, Handa’s Surprise,
Giraffe’s Can’t Dance
The Elephant’s pillow,
The Leopard’s drum, The
Kapok tree, We’re going
on a Lion hunt, Mulan.
Non-fiction recipes,
food related texts and
Religious stories
- Can segment and blend
accurately
- Writing high frequency
words independently and
with growing accuracy
- Links sounds to letters
for more than half of
the alphabet
- Beginning to
understand simple
sentences
- Attempts to write
meaningful sentences
which can be read by
themselves and others
* Shared texts- Little
Red Hen, Ugly duckling,
The Owl who was Afraid
of the Dark, Dear Zoo,
Emperor’s Egg, plus Nonfiction- animals texts
- Writes phonetically
plausble words within
sentences
- Some words are spelt
correctly and others are
phonetically plausible
- Reads and understands
sentences when reading
- Can check their own
work with growing
independence and
accuracy
Subject Overview 2016-2017
Narrative –
Q Pootle 5, Man on
the Moon
Poetry – Blast Off
Poems
Non-fiction (planets)
Link to ICT – chn
finding out
information about
plants and record
into a log book.
Class book: Katie in London.
The Great Fire of London
Class Books: Krindlekrax
Myths and Legends
Reading focus:
Decoding words
Skimming and Scanning
Answering questions
Writing
Narratives
Persuasion
Descriptive writing
Letter writing
Writing
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Curriculum Team: English
Class Book Cliff hanger
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Persuasive Information Text Recount Class Book: The firework
maker’s daughter
Non-chronological reports
Narrative
Diary entry
Newspaper report
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Class book: Journey to the
River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
Writing:
narrative,
poetry,
description,
non-chronological reports
Information text.
Letters.
Diaries.
Explanations
Assessment –
Setting description
of an imaginary
planet
Instructions –
planting seeds as
linked to Science
work.
Narrative –
- Little red Ant and
the Great Big Crumb
-Off we go to
Mexico
-I see the Sun in
Mexico
Dictionaries – skill
based activities
Assessment – An
adventure story to
an island
Class Book: The Owl who’s afraid of
the dark.
Reading focus:
Decoding words
Answering questions – referring to
the texts
Writing
Narrative
Information Texts
Non-chronological reports
Class Books: The Great
Kapok Tree
Story from another
culture Gregory Cool
Letter writing
Poetry
Description
Newspaper reports
Class Book: Stig of the Dump
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Non‐chronological reports 
Explanation texts 
Recount Poetry
Recount
Biography
Non-fiction book focus
Topic: The Mayans
Writing
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narrative
poetry
Description
non-chronological
reports
Subject: English
SU1
Shared texts- George and
Flora’s Secret Garden,
Jack and the Beanstalk,
Jasper’s Beanstalk, Grow
your own, plus Non-fiction
texts linked to plants
- Uses punctuation to
support fluency and
expression when reading
- Punctuates their work
with growing independence
and accuracy
- Can answer questions to
demonstrate
understanding when
reading
- Able to respond to
shared experiences and
reading within their
writing
- Participates actively;
offering and explaining
their understanding
- Growing independence to
apply text features more
independently and write
for a given audience
Subject Overview 2016-2017
Dictionaries – skill
based activities
Non – Fiction – Non
Fiction reading about a
famous person. Create a
non-fiction page.
Narrative: George and
the Dragon, Charlie and
the chocolate factory,
Georges marvellous
medicine, The
Gingerbread man, The
little Red Hen, James
and the Giant Peach.
Add: Another week of
the little red hen
Non-fiction writing
about a famous person
Dictionaries
Assessment – story or
recount of a day out
with a famous person.
Class Book: The Twits.
Reading focus:
Answering questions – referring to
the texts
Inference
Reading aloud
Writing
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Description.
Story reviews
Biography
Persuasive
Class Books: Sci Fi
The |ron Man
Writing
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Narrative
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Descriptive
Writing
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Persuasion
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Letter Writing
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Poetry
Curriculum Team: English
Class Book:
Bronze Axe
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The Boy with the
Narrative Information text Letter writing Class Book How to train your
Dragon
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Non-chronological
reports
Descriptive writing
Diary entry
Non-fiction book focus
Topic: The Water
CYcle
Writing: recounts,
diary entries,
newspapers, fictional
narrative, persuasive
writing, arguments
Subject: English
SU2
Shared texts- The
Rainbow Fish, The Snail
and the Whale, The
Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch,
Aliens Love Underpants,
Scaredy Squirrel,
Commotion in the Ocean
- Reads phonically regular
words of more than one
syllable as well as many
irregular but high
frequency words.
- Uses phonic, semantic
and syntactic knowledge to
understand unfamiliar
vocabulary.
- Can describe the main
events in the simple
stories they have read.
- Writes irregular words
accurately
- Writes words which
match their spoken sounds
- Words are spelt
correctly/phonetically
plausible
- Uses varied word choices
- Uses a range of ways to
start sentences
- Uses a wider range of
punctuation with growing
accuracy and skill
- Uses key features of
narrative in their writing.
Subject Overview 2016-2017
Poetry- acrostic poem, Who
am I?
Informative texts
About different types of
animals
About YWP
Recount
Trip to YWP
Writing
Narrative –
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Class Books: Traction Man
Bungleman
Real life Heroes
Reading focus:
Decoding words
Answering questions – referring to
the texts
Performance
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Gilbert in deep
Rainbow Fish
The snail and
the whale
Wombat goes
walkabout
The tiger skin
rug
The odd egg
Assessment – Story of a
sea adventure in a
submarine
Assessment – description of
a shell house and a beach
hut
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Narrative – extended
stories
Poetry
Recount of residential
Class Book: La Mariposa
Story from another culture
Descriptions,
Letter writing
Narrative
Curriculum Team: English
Class book:
Rampage
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Romans on the
Autobiography
Letter writing
Explanation texts
poetry
Descriptive writing
Diary entry
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Michael Morpurgo
Writing: narrative,
poetry, description,
non-chronological
reports