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
