Year 2/3 Mixed Age English Planning

Enjoy two books featuring the 1969 moon landings, The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon and The Darkest Dark by astronaut Chris Hadfield. Compose chronological reports about Apollo 11's mission. Plan and write recounts and fact files about dream jobs. Explore subordinating conjunctions and common prefixes.

Enjoy poems about places by Joseph Coelho and others. Learn to recognise and use onomatopoeia and rhyme. Explore the use of expanded noun phrases and possessive apostrophes. Write descriptively about a familiar setting with a magical element.

Enjoy using The Night Gardener as inspiration for descriptive writing. Create instructions for planting seeds based on The Girl Who Planted Trees. Explore past and present tense and learn about contractions and possessive apostrophes. Share The Woman Who Turned Children Into Birds and write an imaginative recount of a day as a bird.

Think like a scientist with this exciting block focusing on instructions and explanations. Meet Ada Twist, Scientist, and follow her lead by carrying out an experiment, writing instructions for others and explaining how things work. Learn about sentence types and conjunctions along the way.

Explore a selection of poems from the wonderful collection, The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog. Study poetic form and devices and create new poems inspired by those read. Grammar includes extending sentences and understanding and punctuating different types of sentence.