LTP ENGLISH 2015-2016
Squirrels
Foxes
Term 1
Term 2
Poetry –
Vocabulary
Building/
poetry
appreciation
Explanation
texts
Recounts
Labels, lists &
captions
Traditional
Tales
Stories with
predictable
phrasing/
recurring
language
Poetry –
structure,
rhyming
couplets
Fiction – Stories
in familiar
settings
Explanations
Information
texts
Poetry –
creating Images
Letter writing
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Term 3
Contemporary
fiction
Report writing
Poetry –
vocabulary
building
Instructions
Fiction -Stories
about
imaginary
worlds
Recounts
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Term 4
Term 5
Book week
Contemporary
fiction
Traditional
Tales - myths
Report writing
Poetry –
structure,
rhyming
couplets
Instructions
Book week
Myths &
Legends
Non
Chronological
Reports
Traditional
poems
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Stories with
recurring
literary
language
Simple nonchronological
reports
Explanations
Poetry –
vocabulary
building
Performance
Poetry
Adventure
Stories
Plays and
Dialogues
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Term 6
Traditional Tales
– recount/
myths
Instructions
Poetry – poetry
appreciation/
calligrams
Hedgehogs
Fiction –
traditional tales
Instructions and
Explanations
Recount -diary
Information
Texts
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction – stories
from other
cultures
Shape Poems
Traditional
Poems
Persuasive
writing
Non
chronological
reports
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Rabbits
Fiction – Fables
Aesop’s Fables by
Michael Rosen
Non-fiction –
Information texts
DK Children’s Book
of Sport
Poetry - Poetry by
heart
Off By Heart –
Poems for YOU to
remember chosen
by Roger Stevens
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction – Genre
fiction
Short by Kevin
Crossley Holland
Non-fiction –
Persuasive writing
The Rainbow Bear
by Michael
Morpurgo
Zoo by Anthony
Browne
The Ice Bear by
Nicola Davies
Poetry - Dialogue
poems
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction – Fairy
stories and
playscripts
Beware of the
Storybook
Wolves, by Lauren
Child
The Pea and the
Princess, by Mini
Grey
The Princess and
the Pea, by Lauren
Child
Non-fiction –
Recounts
Little Mouse’s
Book of Fears by
Emily Gravett
Poetry –
Traditional poems
A Child’s Garden
of Verses by
Robert Louis
Stevenson
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction – Stories
about times past
The Pearl Diver by
Julia Johnson
A Gift of the Sands
by Julia Johnson
Non-fiction –
Non-chronological
Selection of Harry
Potter books by J
K Rowling
Poetry - Poet
study: Emily
Dickinson
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction –
Adventure Stories
The Hodgeheg by
Dick King-Smith
Non-fiction –
Non-chronological
reports (B, Yr4)
Essential books:
The Wolves in the
Walls by Neil
Gaiman
Wolves by Emily
Gravett
Top Gun of the
Sky by Martin
Bradley
Poetry Traditional poems
Going to the Fair
by Charles Causley
The Puffin Book of
Fantastic First
Poems
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction – Modern
classic fiction
The Eighteenth
Emergency by
Betsy Byers
Non-fiction –
Instructions and
Explanations
Examples of
instructional and
explanation text
are provided
Poetry –
Classic Poems for
Children compiled
by Nicola Baxter
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Badgers
Traditional tales
/ myths
Recount
Fiction genres
Performance
poetry
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Biography
Instructional
writing
Explanation
Nonchronological
reports
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Fiction genres
A range of
responsive
writing
Eyewitness
accounts
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Book week
Nonchronological
reports
Historical
writing
Diary entry
Poetry
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments
Persuasion
Discussion
Debate
Grammar
Spelling
Assessments –
Y6 SATs
Poetry
Extended
narrative
Grammar
Spelling