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...

• Poems
• Narratives to retell stories
• Fact files

Our key texts will be, 'The Storm Whale' and 'Gorilla'.

Autumn 2

This term we will be writing...

• Poems
• Narratives to retell stories

Our key texts will be, 'The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark' and 'The Gigantic Turnip'.

Spring 1

This term we will be writing...

• Narratives to retell stories
• Fact files

Our key texts will be, 'Who Am I?' and 'The Tin Forest'.

Spring 2​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This term we will be writing...

• Narratives to retell stories
• Poems

Our key texts will be, 'Don't' and 'Meerkat Mail'.