Reception/Year 1 Mixed Age English Planning

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Spring Set A Blocks

2 Units

Enjoy reading Here comes Mr Postmouse and Dear Postman to help explore writing letters in different contexts. Children write requests and responses, explore sentence types, focus on punctuation: capitals and end of sentence.

Letters and Postcards: Wait a minute Mr Postman

3 Units

Explore the world of nocturnal animals by sharing fiction and non-fiction books such as The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark and Night Animals. Create correctly punctuated questions and information sentences using 'and' to join clauses.

Information Texts: Winter Days and Nights

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3 Units

Enjoy identifying rhyme and repetition in We’re Going on a Lion Hunt, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, and Handa’s Hen. Sequence, retell and then write own repeating pattern story including some descriptive sentences.

Repeating Patterns: African Adventure

3 Units

Share the fantastic Mo Willems books about Pigeon and learn how to draw Pigeon. Take inspiration from Mr Wolf's Pancakes and Hamilton's Boris and Sid are Bad! to follow and write lists, commands, instructions and recipes.

Lists, Instructions and Recipes: Step by Step...

3 Units

Create mythical creature descriptions and stories, inspired by sharing the Dragon Dinosaur, The Dragon Machine and Mary and the Unicorn. Use prepositional phrases and punctuate sentences with 'and' and 'because'.

Traditional Tales and Fables: Are you sitting comfortably?

3 Units

Read, discuss and recite nature poems. Study sentence punctuation including questions & answers, and adjectives. Build descriptive vocabulary and use senses to write poems.

Poems on a Theme: Naturally So

3 Units

Use humorous poems, rhymes and tongue twisters to explore patterns, rhyming and alliterative sentences. Have fun reciting poems and creating your own funny verses.

Humorous Poems: Animal Antics

3 Units

Humorous stories about animals, including The Day Louis Got Eaten and I am a Tiger stimulate reading and writing. Children generate oral and written descriptions and learn correct punctuation.

Stories on a Theme: Something funny happened last night...