Reception/Year 1 English

Have fun with repeating patterns in We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Little Rabbit Foo Foo, Mrs Armitage on Wheels and Mrs Armitage Queen of the Road. Explore repeated refrains while developing sentence writing and punctuation skills.

Explore differences between fiction and non-fiction using fantastic books about machines and space. Use features of information texts. Sequence and punctuate sentences; revise plural nouns.

Using humorous texts, You Can’t Take an Elephant on a Bus and What you shouldn't do before school, study different sentence types; punctuate correctly. Focus on commands and ‘bossy’ language. Write commands

Spark imaginations with Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis and Billy’s Bucket by Kes Gray and Garry Parsons. Explore sentence building and punctuation, writing labels and signs.

Identify and match rhyming pairs, as well as compose rhyming sentences, using Oi Frog! & Oi Dog! for inspiration. Explore the use of syllables and the prefix un-.

Pattern and rhyme help children memorise and write poetry. Develop comprehension skills, rehearse end of sentence punctuation and practise using present and past tense verbs.

Get creative with descriptive words while learning about Diwali and Firework Night inspired by the texts Rama and Sita and Let's celebrate 5 days of Diwali. Have fun sharing Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas Present to inspire children to talk about their Christmas and Winter Traditions, as well as to write their own thank you letters to Santa.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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