Writing & Reading

Term 1 

Term 2 

Term 3 

Term 4 

Term 5 

Term 6 

EYFS 

Year 1 

Beegu 

Where The Wild Things Are 

Strong Start (sentence work) 

Poetry 

Setting descriptions 

Instructional Writing 

The Storm Whale 

The Owl and the Pussycat by 

Edward Lear 

Aesop’s Fables – The Boy Who Cried Wolf 

Stories with familiar settings 

Poetry: playing 

with language 

The Tale of Peter Rabbit 

Look Up! 

Recount from personal experience 

Informal letters 

Poetry on a 

theme (nature) 

Here We Are 

Chocolate Cake by 

Michael Rosen 

Stories with familiar settings 

Recount from personal 

experience 

There’s a Rangtan in my Bedroom 

And Tango Makes Three 

Poetry (pattern 

and rhyme) 

Informal letters 

Setting descriptions 

The Lion Inside 

Aesop’s Fables – The Hare and the Tortoise 

The Proudest Blue 

Poetry on a 

theme 

(nature) 

Phonics and Spelling focus  

Instructional writing 

Poetry: 

playing 

with 

language 

Year 2 

Grandad’s Island 

Aesop’s Fables – The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs 

Mrs Noah’s Pockets 

Strong Start (sentence work) 

Character descriptions 

Poems 

developing 

vocabulary 

Simple retelling of a narrative 

Paddington 

The Christmas Pine 

Formal invitations 

Stories from other cultures 

The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by 

Edward Lear 

Coming to England 

The Street Beneath My Feet 

Poetry on a 

theme 

(humorous) 

Non-chronological reports 

Formal invitations 

Rhythm of the Rain 

Little People Big Dreams: David Attenborough 

Character descriptions 

Recount from personal 

experience 

Poems 

developing 

vocabulary 

Great Women Who Changed the World 

Aesop’s Fables – The Sun and The Wind 

Non-chronological reports 

Recount from personal experience  

Fantastic Mr Fox 

Simple retelling of a narrative 

Stories from other cultures 

Year 3 

Greta and the Giant 

Pebble in my Pocket 

Strong Start (sentence work) 

Poetry on 

a theme 

(emotions) 

First person narrative 

descriptions 

Non-chronological reports 

Leon and the Place Between 

‘Twas the Night Before  

Christmas 

Formal letters to complain 

Performance 

poetry (inc. 

poetry from 

other cultures) 

Dialogue through narrative 

(historical stories) 

Sam Wu is Not Afraid of the  

Dark 

My Shadow by Robert  Louis Stephenson  

Third person narrative 

(animal stories) 

Non-chronological reports 

Operation Gadgetman 

Advanced instructional writing 

Performance 

poetry (inc. 

poetry from 

other 

cultures) 

Enrichment 

First person narrative 

descriptions 

The Dancing Bear 

Third person narrative 

(animal stories) 

Formal letters to complain 

The Magician’s Nephew 

Dialogue through narrative 

(historical stories) 

Poetry on a 

theme 

(emotions) 

Advanced instructional 

writing 

Year 4 

The Queen’s Nose  

Young, Gifted and Black  

Strong Start (sentence work) 

Young, Gifted and Black  

The Girl who Stole an Elephant 

The Girl who Stole an Elephant 

The Boy at the Back of the 

Class  

The Boy at the Back of the 

Class  

Varjak Paw 

Varjak Paw 

The Wind in the Willows 

The Wind in the Willows 

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe 

Year 5 

Shackleton’s Journey 

Formal letters of 

application 

Third person stories set in 

another culture 

Poems which explore 

form 

Secrets of a Sun King 

If by Rudyard Kipling 

Dialogue in narrative 

(first person myths and legends) 

Balanced argument 

Poems that 

use word 

play 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

I Am Not a Label 

Third person stories set in 

another culture 

Playscripts 

(Shakespeare retelling) 

The Boy in the Tower 

Daffodils by William Wordsworth 

Formal letters of application 

Biography 

Poems that use word play 

The Explorer 

Playscripts 

Dialogue in narrative 

(first person myths and legends) 

Five Children and It 

Balanced argument 

Biography 

Poems which 

explore form 

Year 6 

Rooftoppers 

The Listeners Walter de la Mare 

Autobiography 

Discursive writing and speeches 

First person stories 

with a moral 

Pig Heart Boy 

How to Live Forever 

Poems that create 

images and explore 

vocabulary 

Explanatory texts 

News reports 

Shakespeare’s sonnets 

All Aboard the Empire Windrush 

The Island 

Extended third person narrative 

(adventure stories) 

Explanatory texts 

Skellig 

Autobiography 

Extended third person narrative (adventure stories) 

An Introduction to Dickens (including Oliver Twist) 

News reports 

Shakespeare’s 

sonnets 

Dare to be You 

Discursive writing 

and speeches 

Poems that 

create 

images and 

explore 

vocabulary 

First person stories 

with a moral