Year 1 2014/15
Aut 1st
8 weeks
Narrative
Non Fiction
Poetry
Stories with
predictable
phrasing 6 weeks
Pie Corbett
Mr Gumpys
outing
Write simple
sentences using
patterned
language, words
and phrases
Labels, lists and
captions
1 week
Write labels
and sentences
for an in-class
exhibition/
museum display
Aut 2nd
7 weeks
Spr 1st
6 weeks
Spr 2nd
6 weeks
Take 1 book Stories
about fantasy worlds
3wks
Where the wild
things are
Contemporary fiction –
stories reflecting
children’s
own experience
(4 weeks)
Pie Corbett Willy the
Wizard
Write a series of
sentences to retell events
based on personal
experience
Report
2 weeks
A simple nonchronological report with
a series of sentences to
describe aspects of the
subject.
Traditional Tales
Take 1 book
2wks
Pie Corbett stories
Snow White, Hansel
for writing Dogger
and Gretel
3 Weeks
Write a re-telling of a Write a series of
traditional story.
sentences to retell
events based on
personal
experience
Fairy Tales
3 Weeks
3 bears goldilocks LRRH
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Write a re-telling of a
fairy tale.
Instructions
2 weeks
Following
a practical
experience,
write up the
instructions for a
simple recipe
Explanations
2 weeks
Draw pictures to
illustrate a simple
process and prepare
several sentences to
support explanation
Recount
2 weeks
Gruffalo + History
Write simple
first person recounts
based on personal
experience, using
adverbs of time to
aid sequencing
Structure – rhyming
couplets
(1 week)
Read, write and
perform free verse
Vocabulary building
(1 week)
Recite familiar
poems by heart
Both based on
Augustus and his
smile
Vocabulary building
(1 week)
Read, write and
perform free verse
Structure – rhyming
couplets
(1 week)
Recite familiar poems
by heart. Not read,
write and perform
free verse
Sum 1st
5 weeks
Report
2 weeks
A simple nonchronological report
with a series of
sentences to describe
aspects of the
subject.
Sum 2nd
7 weeks
Vocabulary building
(1 week)
Read, write and
perform free verse
Take one poet – poetry
appreciation
(1 week)
Personal responses to
poetry Recite familiar
poems by heart
Year 2 2014/15
Aut 1st
8 Weeks
Aut 2nd
7 weeks
Spr 1st
6 Weeks
Spr 2nd
6 weeks
Sum 1st
5 Weeks
Sum 2nd
7 weeks
Stories with recurring
literary
language
(4 weeks)
Use a familiar story as
a model to write a
new story.
Traction man
Take 1book
1week
Traditional Tales Myths (creation
stories)
(4 weeks)
Write a creation
myth based on ones
read e.g. how the
zebra got his stripes.
Take 1 book
2 weeks
Pie Corbett
Pumpkin Soup
Report
4 weeks
Assemble
information on a
subject, sorting and
categorising
information; use
comparative
language to describe
and differentiate
Vocabulary building
1 week
Read, write and
perform free
verse
Instructions
2 weeks
Write a series
of fiction-based
instructions (i.e.
‘How to trap an
ogre’), including
diagrams.
Explanations
2 weeks
produce a flowchart,
ensuring content
is clearly sequenced
Narrative
Traditional Tales Fairy Tales
(4 weeks )
Write a re-telling
of a traditional
story.
Take 1book 2weeks
Dave and the Tooth
Fairy
4 weeks?
Non Fiction
Explanations
2 week
Following practical
tasks, produce a
simple flowchart
or cyclical diagram
and record a series
of sentences to
support the
explanation
Vocabulary
building (list
poems)
(2 weeks)
Read list poems.
Write and perform
own versions.
Recount
2 weeks
Write first person
recounts retelling
historical events using
adverbs of time to aid
sequencing and
maintaining
consistency
in tense and person
Structure – calligrams
(1 week)
Write own calligrams
(based on single
words)
Poetry
Structure –
calligrams
2 weeks
Write own
calligrams
(shape poems)
Vocabulary building
(1 week)
read, write and perform
free verse
Take one poet – poetry
appreciation
(2 weeks)
Personal responses to
poetry Recite familiar
poems by heart