Reception/Year 1 English

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.

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.