Reception/Year 1 English
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Autumn Blocks
Read Jill Murphy's Five Minutes' Peace, Mo Willems' Knuffle Bunny and Group Reader Boris and Sid Make a Mess, inspiring children to write a familiar settings story.

Labels and Captions: Families and Me
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.

Repetition in Stories: Repeating Patterns
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.

Story Sequence and Captions: Big Machines and Space
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

Imperatives, Polite Requests and Recipes: Instructions and 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.

Significant Authors: Reimagining the ordinary
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-.

Funny Poems: Humorous poems
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.

Traditional Rhymes: Pattern and Rhyme in Poetry
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.

Description, Letters and Greetings: Winter Lights and Christmas
Spring Blocks
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
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
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
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...
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?
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
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
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...
Summer Blocks
Explore Cinderella, Snow White and the Billy Goats Gruff. Tell new versions inspired by Snow White in New York by Fiona French. Study adjectives and punctuation.

Traditional Tales and Fables: Fairy Tales
Have fun with traditional action rhymes, rounds, songs and nursery rhymes. Enjoy developing performance skills, exploring homophones and writing letters.

Traditional Poems: Timeless Rhymes and Poems
Enter the world of superheroes by sharing the books Superheroes All Sorts and Super Daisy. Spark imagination by describing superheroes and their powers. Learn about plurals and suffixes to help write a superhero description.

Stories on a Theme: Superheroes
Discover interesting facts from Questions and Answers about Food and Yuck and Yum. Read and write questions, answers and statements. Explore imperative verbs used in Animal Recipes and create a recipe.

Information Texts: Food, Glorious Food!
Read gorgeous books about tigers, whales, sharks and polar bears. Understand differences between fiction and non-fiction, read, answer and write questions and produce factual texts.

Compare Fiction and Non-fiction Texts: My World
Stimulate creative writing through imagination and dreams using Through the Magic Mirror, Chicken's Bad Dream and Peep Inside Night-time. Practise joining clauses by writing character profiles and describing bad dreams.

Stories to Make you Look, Think and Talk: Imagination and Dreams
Explore the senses through poetry by reading Sensational! Poems inspired by the five senses and They All Saw a Cat. Children learn parts by heart, focusing on interesting adjectives, and write their own poems.

Poems on a Theme: Sense of Humour
Read and write letters and postcards inspired by Dear Greenpeace and Boris and Sid meet a shark. Explore sentence punctuation and extension.
