English

Autumn Term

Stories set in Imaginary Worlds

Reading and familiarisation of text type.

• Investigate the themes of the narratives and identify the key elements of the narrative structure
• Compare and contrast settings from the texts.
• Children should compare the settings to find common techniques for creating different atmospheres.
• Highlight evidence in texts that illustrate how the author has communicated to the reader the thinking and feelings of different characters.
• Children locate and highlight evidence in the texts that demonstrates how the author has shown what a character is thinking and feeling in response to a setting.

Capturing and Planning Ideas

• Developing settings using picture sources.
• Adapting settings to meet the requirements of mood and atmosphere.
• Creating story plans with a relevant sequence of settings and events.

Writing

• Organising writing into paragraphs.
• Revise and adapt drafts.
• Linking ideas within the writing by using adverbials and conjunctions.

Recounts

Reading, retrieving and making notes.

• Investigate the key elements of newspaper reports and magazine articles.
• Model writing for children

Reading, writing conclusions.

• Identify structure of events and key emotive phrases.
• Identification of key features in text examples.
• Identify fact, commentary and opinion in journalistic writing.

Writing newspaper Reports.

• Planning a recount by oral retelling and recording on planning sheets.
• Plan, draft and organise a newspaper recount using the correct features.

Spring Term

Stories from Other Cultures

• Read short stories from around the world
• Record their responses and ideas in a journal
• Make predictions about how the main characters will act
• Work in role to interview characters.

• Talk about making deductions based on evidence from the text and respond imaginatively

• Demonstrate how to use evidence from the text to support a point of view

• Review what they have learned about the characters.

Explanations

Familiarisation with text types and comprehension

• Read and analyse explanation texts.
• Text marking of key features.
• Use organisational features to find information quickly.

Modelling explanations through oral work and drama

• Rehearsal of oral explanations.
• Breakdown features of language used in explanations.
• Watch and re-watch The Shirt Machine by Jon Davis.

Visual Planning, Oral Rehearsal and Writing

• Children use information collected from reading more than one source and present it in the form of an explanation text.
• Children can write an explanation text from a diagrammatic plan, using the conventions of the text-type.

Poetry

Reading and Responding to Poems

• Read and analyse poems.
• Similes and other linguistic devices to create a vivid picture.
• Respond to the poems in a variety of ways - art, dance, drama, writing in reading journals.
• Consider why poets have chosen the language they used.

Language Development and Shared Writing

• Exploring similes through games and activities.
• Demonstrate how to gather ideas.
• Children understand how to plan and write a poem based on a model.

Writing a Poem Based on a Model

• Children write their own simple poem based on one already looked at.
• Children paint a vivid word picture by including similes and other descriptive features in their poems.

Summer Term

Stories with a Historical Setting

Persuasion

Familiarisation with text types and comprehension

• Read and analyse persuasion texts.

Poetry

Reading and Performing Poetry

• Read and analyse simple patterned poetry types e.g. cinquin and haiku.
• Discuss spoken rhythm and intonation.

Planning and Creating Poetry Presentations

• Using graphical software to create images for use in presentations.
• Recording and performing poems.

Showcasing and Evaluating Poetry Presentations

• Performance of presentations.
• Evaluation using criteria.