Medium Term Plan – Rec/Y1 Summer YEAR A
We will provide a two year rolling programme plus extra plans to add different texts and topics. This means that next year there will be a completely new raft of
plans for the Rec/Y1 teacher to draw upon so that no child in either year will need to repeat a plan!
Term
Fiction
Plan 5A: Traditional Stories
Required texts:
Non-fiction
Plan 5A: Letters and Postcards
Required texts:
Poetry
Plan 5A: Nonsense Poems
Required texts:
The Black Rabbit by Phillipa Leathers
Wolf Won’t Bite by Emily Gravett
Barbapapa by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor
Two Can Toucan by David McKee
Description:
Description:
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear and Louise
Voce
The Works chosen by Paul Cookson
Children listen to and read a wide variety of traditional
tales and compare them with Philippa Leather’s wonderful
Black Rabbit. They then read and recite Emily Gravett’s
Wolf Won’t Bite before using it as a model for their own
scary animal story.
Children learn how to format a letter and postcard,
understand why people write to each other and be aware
of the different types of sentences that authors use,
including using ‘and’ to join two ideas together in a
compound sentence or to add descriptive phrases and
words.
Description:
1. Punctuate sentences with a capital letter, full stop,
exclamation or question mark.
2. Begin to use ‘and’ to join sentences.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Use capital letters for proper nouns.
2. Write, leaving spaces between words.
3. Punctuate sentences using capital letters, full stops, etc.
1. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and
a full stop, a question or exclamation mark.
2. Write, leaving spaces between words.
Plan 6A: Stories about Families
Required texts:
Plan 6A: Information Texts: African Alphabets
Required texts:
Plan 6A: Action Poems
Required texts:
A Bit Lost by Chris Haughton
My Mum by Anthony Browne
My Dad by Anthony Browne
My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh by Nick Sharratt
African Animal Alphabet from National Geographic
African Animal ABC by Philippa Alys Browne
South African Animals by Lindiwe Mabuza
Wild and Free by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
Why are whales so big? by Miles Kelly
Required Poems supplied with plan.
Summer
Grammar focus for Year 1:
Description:
Using texts about Mums, Dads and Babies, children talk
and write about their families, and author their own stories
too. The focus is on extending and punctuating sentences
using a range of texts relating to children’s own
experiences to help support learning.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Use capital letters for the names of people/places.
2. Punctuate sentences with a capital letter, full stop,
exclamation or question mark.
3. Write, leaving spaces between words.
Description:
Using information texts, including National Geographic
African Animal Alphabet, children focus on alphabetical
order and use this to help write a class African Alphabet
book. They develop their ability to write fluently by
extending sentences and punctuating with exclamation and
question marks.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and
a full stop, a question or exclamation mark.
2. Join two simple sentences using ‘and’
3. Learn the grammar for Y1
© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users.
Using poetry by Edward Lear, children write questions,
statements and exclamations. They will compose their own
rhyming poem. They explore Lear’s poem, The Quangle
Wangle’s Hat and use it to learn about sequencing, writing
a character profile and learning a poem by-heart.
Description:
In this unit children will sing, dance and enjoy a variety of
familiar and new Action Poems. They will refine the skills of
working collaboratively to enhance their performances,
and be able to compose their own versions of known
action poems. They will develop an understanding of using
capital letters to spell proper nouns, and how to use
exclamation marks in sentences.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Use capital letters for proper nouns.
2. Write, leaving spaces between words.