Escapes and Dreams | Hamilton Trust

The planning and resource documents for each session in this English block are free to all users.

Recognising, naming and expressing feelings (suggested as 4 days)

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Planning and Activities

You Will Need

Essential Text
Felix After the Rain by Dunja Jogan

Desirable Text
Bright Bursts of Colour by Matt Goodfellow

Phonics: Code-Breakers

Code-Breakers is a synthetic phonics programme that teaches phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences (PGCs) in a systematic, child-friendly fashion.

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SPaG Presentations

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. Alternatively, these presentations can be used as stand-alone whiteboard sessions. Try your year group below.

Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6
Group Readers

Group Readers are charmingly illustrated short books written to facilitate reading and comprehension progression from Reception right through to Year 6.

R Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Y6