Datchet St Mary’s Church of England Primary Academy Literature
Spine
Nursery
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Billy goats
Animals
Teddy bears’ picnic
Dear zoo
Bears
We’re going on a
bear hunt
Changing and
growing
Hungry caterpillar
Mog and Meg
Five minutes’ peace
Where’s Spot?
The enormous turnip
Reception
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Three little pigs
How to catch a star
One fish, two fish
Rainbow fish
Dinosaurs’ diet
Five hungry
dinosaurs
The tiger who came
to tea
Bees
Scuba diving
The bad-tempered
ladybird
Room on the broom
Tortoise’s dream
Funny bones
Dogger
The tale of Peter
Rabbit
Little red Riding
Hood
Year 1
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Brown Bear, Brown
Bear
How to make bear
toast (instructions)
Active Animals
(alliteration poem)
Owl Babies
Dear Father
Firework poems
Christmas (persuasive
letter)
Silver by Walter de La
Mere
Recount (Windsor
Castle visit)
Haiku poem
Princess and the Pea
Jack and the
Beanstalk
A Gift of the Sun
Tiddler
The Tiny Seed (
Information text)
How to grow a
Sunflower
All about starfish
Jolly Postman
The Owl and the
Pussycat
Year 2
Fiction
The Lighthouse
Keeper’s Lunch
Non-fiction
How to trap a stone
giant
Poetry
Green Eggs and Ham
Harvest poem
Lost and Found
The Great Fire
The Perfect Princess
Mother’s Day Poem
Mr Small’s Big
Adventure
Please Mrs Butler
Michael Rosen's book
of very silly poems
The Cat in the Hat and
other stories - Dr Seuss
The Gruffalo and other
stories Mr Men and Little Miss
stories Mr Benn
The Enormous Crocodile
The Mousehole Cat
The Three Little Wolves
and the Big Bad Pig
Amazing Grace
Jim and the Beanstalk
The boy who cried wolf
The true story of the 3
little pigs Mr Wolf’s Pancakes
The Owl who was afraid
of the dark
Paddington Bear Stories
Flat Stanley
Silly Verse for Kids –
Spike Milligan
Little Red Riding
Hood poem – Roald
Dahl
Year 3
Fiction
Non-fiction
The Iron Man
How to build a robot
The Tears of Isis
(abridged)
Window
The Firework Maker’s
daughter
Odysseus and the
Cyclops Rosemary
Sutcliff
George’s Marvellous
Medicine
Poetry
Year 4
Fiction
Non-fiction
Kingdom of the
Golden Dragon
(Adapted)
El caminante (film)
Eagle of the Ninth
(Adapted)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Letter to the Emperor
Ice trap!
The Hobbit (Abridged
and adapted)
The Papaya that
Spoke
Black Beauty
The Amazing Story of
Adolphus Tips
George’s Marvellous
Medicine
How to train a dragon
Poetry
Year 5
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Aesop’s fables
Feed the Poor
One River, many
creeks
Boy King
How to find pirates’
treasure
The Selfish Giant
The canal
How to bury pirates’
treasure
Year 6
Fiction
Non-fiction
Sandy Cove
Oliver Twist
The Thing Upstairs
(The Blitz)
George and the
Dragon
Should Gold E Locks be Harvest Moon (Ted
gaoled?
Hughes)
Should Evacuation
have happened?
Poetry
From a Railway
Carriage (Robert Louis
Stevenson)
Toast (extracts)
Old Possum’s Book of
Practical Cats (TS Eliot)
The sea is a hungry
dog (James Reeves)
Treasure Island
Diary of a killer cat
Stormbreaker
The Water Babies
Hard Times
Street Child
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Goodnight Mister Tom
Carrie’s War
Hard Times, Growing up
in the Victorian Age
The diary of a World War
II pilot
The Diary of Ann Frank
Toast,
My family and Other
Animals
The life and times of the
Thunderbolt Kid
The Little ships: a story of
the heroic rescue of
Dunkirk