Throughout the year we will be learning...

Reading

• Listening to you read and giving you books to read at home
• Doing lots of phonics to help you remember all of your letters and sounds
• Learning to read the year 1 and year 2 key words 
• Asking lots of different questions about the books and texts you read to help improve your comprehension skills

Writing

• Doing lots of phonics to help you to segment words and spell them
• Practising how to form all of the lower case letters
• Practising to spell the year 1 and year 2 common exception words
• Writing texts about real and imagined things
• Writing different types of poetry
• Practising how to THINK and SAY each sentence properly before writing them
• Learning how to punctuate sentences by using: full stops, capital letters, question marks, exclamation marks, commas in lists and apostrophes for contractions (can't, won't shouldn't, etc.) and possession (Tom's coat)
• Learning how to extend sentences by using different conjunctions, such as: and, but, so, because, when, or and if
• Learning about the following word classes: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs.

Autumn 1

This term we will be writing...

• Wanted posters to help capture a dragon and rescue one of the Queen's brave knights
• Diary entries about our time at Knight School
• Stories about Zog the dragon
• Poems about castles!

Autumn 2

This term we will be writing...

• Information texts about The Great Fire Of London
• Comparisons about life in 1666 and life now
• Stories from other cultures
• Information texts about Africa

Spring 1

This term we will be writing...

• Narratives, using the book The Bear And The Piano
• Animal riddles!
• Fact files about rainforests to link with our science learning about habitats

Spring 2

This term we will be writing...

• Fictional recounts inspired by Edmund Hillary's journey to the summit of Mount Everest
• Newspaper reports about Neil Armstrong's mission to the Moon in 1969
• Diary entries and information reports inspired by Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole!

Summer 1

This term we will be writing...

• Information report about seed dispersal
• Instructions for growing a cress head
• Jack and the Beanstalk adaptation.

Summer 2

This term we will be writing...

• Descriptive writing 
• Newspaper report