Writing

Deykin Avenue JI School English Curriculum: Class Texts

Yr

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Reception

Who’s in the Loo

 

Rhymes: Incy Wincy Spider

Humpty Dumpty

 

Rhymes: Jack and Jill

 

Pardon Said the Giraffe

 

Rhymes: Mary had a little Lamb

Monstersaurus

 

Rhymes:

Row, Row, Row your boat

Supermarket Zoo

 

Rhymes:

Old Macdonald

The Bear and the Piano

 

Rhymes:

Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star

 

Year 1

Hibernation Hotel by John Kelly

 

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

 

Poetry – Scarecrow Christmas by Pie Corbett

Little Red by Bethan Woolvin

 

Poetry –  Monday’s Child by Mother Goose

Prince Cinders by Babette Cole

 

Beegu by Alexis Deacon

 

Poetry – acrostic – The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll

 

Dogs Don’t Do Ballet by Anna Kemp

 

Year 2

A Squash and A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler

 

 

Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett

 

Poetry – Christmas Haiku Pie Corbett

The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

Dread Cat by Michael Rosen

 

Poetry – The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear

The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas

 

Poetry – The Sound Collector by Roger McGough

 

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl

Year 3

Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl

 

 

 

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy

 Poetry – The Twelve Days of Christmas

Jim and The Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs

Poetry –  Volcano by Joshua Seigal

Flotsam by David Wiesner

Spy Fox – Film Unit

 

Poetry – From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Rauf

Year 4

George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

 

Poetry – Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf by Roald Dahl

The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan

 

 

Arthur and The Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton

 

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

 

Poetry – The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning

 

My Name Is Not Refugee by Kate Milner

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

 

Poetry – Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

Year 5

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

 

 

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

 

Poetry – In the Bleak Midwinter

by Christina Rossetti

 

Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

Matilda by Roald Dahl

 

Poetry – Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

 

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Ways of the Wolf by Smriti Prasadam-Halls & Jonathan Woodward

 

Poetry – The Tyger by William Blake

 

 

Year 6

The Island by Armin Greder

 

 

The Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen

 

Poetry – ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars

 

 

 

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

 

 

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

 

Poetry – Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou

 

A range of writing based on the the concept of ‘anywhere island’. The children will create their own island and take part in a variety of writing tasks.

 

Poetry – My Generation by Jordan Nichols