Autumn
Castlefort JMI Long Term Literacy Plan
Spring
Summer
Yr 1
Fiction:
Guess What?
Wtg focus:
recount, diary,
story, questions
Poetry:
Sensational Senses
Wtg focus:
Composing new
vocab, short
narratives and
poems
Non-Fiction:
Who lives here?
Wtg focus: Diary,
factual sentence,
recall, questions
Live Unit
Poetry (S&L):
Poetry Star!
Wtg focus:
Letters
Fiction:
Once Upon a Time...
Wtg focus: Retell of
different stories,
questions, letter,
diary
Poetry:
Pattern and Rhyme
Wtg focus: Spelling patterns,
rhyming words.
Non-Fiction:
Why do elephants
have big ears?
Wtg focus: Labels,
captions, reports,
questions,
instructions,
Fiction:
Fantastic Voyages
Wtg focus: Diary entries, retell
of stories, postcards, longer
narratives, story writing
descriptive writing
Yr 2
Fiction:
What Would You
Do?
Wtg focus:
Letter wtg.
Story wtg.
Poetry:
Pattern, Rhythm
and Rhyme
Wtg focus:
Rhyming words
Reciting own
poetry.
Live Unit:
Newshounds
Wtg focus:
News Reports
Fiction:
A Twist in the Tale
Wtg focus:
Writing traditional
tales with roles
reversed.
Poetry:
A Closer Look
Wtg focus:
Explore and write poems using
poetic language, adjectives and
verbs.
Non-fiction:
Does Chocolate
Grow On Trees?
Wtg focus:
Explanation text
based on e-book.
Fiction:
Muddles and Mishaps
Wtg focus:
Instruction writing using
commands and story writing.
Yr 3
Non-Fiction:
Was
Tutankhamen
Killed?
Wtg focus:
Letter wtg
Paragraphing
Expl. Text
Poetry:
Performance
Poetry
Poetic features
Structure
Writing a
performance
poem.
Non-Fiction:
Where would you
like to live?
Wtg focus:
Reports
Newspaper article.
Setting description.
Fiction:
Dragon Slayer
Wtg focus:
Diary entries.
Character description.
Plan and write own legend.
Poetry:
Playing with
words
Wtg focus:
Class poems.
Individual poems.
Editing and
improving.
Non-Fiction:
How far would I go to look
cool?
Wtg focus:
Newspaper Articles
Short familiar setting story
writing.
Yr 4
Non -fiction:
Wanted: Space
Explorer
Wtg focus:
Diary entry
Biography
Non-chronological
report
Fiction:
Storm
Wtg focus:
Planning/wtg
setting description
Conversation wtg
using speech
Character
description
Fiction:
Christophe’s Story
Wtg focus: Letter
Book blurb
Story writing
Diary entry
Non-fiction:
All About
Orang-utans
Wtg focus:
Instruction wtg.
Write an e-book
non-fiction
report.
Live Unit:
All About Me *ICT
Wtg focus:
Storyboarding
Autobiographies
Performing (S&L)
Live Unit:
Sounds Spooky…
*ICT
Pod casts
Non-Fiction:
The Most Incredible
Sport
Wtg focus:
Newspaper report
Non chronological
report
Live Unit:
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Wtg focus:
Plan, edit and write a new
episode of the fantasy story.
Poetry:
Exploring Poetic
Form
Wtg focus:
Compose class
and individual
poems
Non-Fiction:
The Shang Dynasty of Ancient
China
Wtg focus:
Non chronological reports
Interviews
Newspaper Articles
Debates
Yr 5
Poetry:
Poets’ Voices
Wtg Focus:
Nonsense-writing
poetry; free-verse
poetry
Fiction:
Friend or Foe
Wtg Focus: New
scene; Presentation
about the author
Non-fiction:
Animals on the
Move
Wtg Focus:
Chronological
report
Non-fiction:
The Museum of
Fun
Wtg Focus:
Advertisements
Poetry:
Compare and perform
Wtg Focus: Prose story
‘prequel’ for a narrative poem
Fiction:
Greek Myths
Wtg Focus: Plan and
write their own myths
Yr 6
Fiction:
Millions and Eye
of the Wolf
Wtg Focus:
Point of view /
perspective
writing.
Non-fiction :
Mission: Save
Pompeii Wtg focus:
Information leaflet
and NonChronological
reports
Live Unit:
The Great Debate
Wtg focus:
How to structure
a debate and use
persuasive
language.
Poetry:
Creating
Images
Wtg focus:
write poems
including
metaphors,
similes and
personification.
Live Unit:
Ultimate Rap!
*ICT
Wtg Focus:
Write and
perform raps
and poetry
Poetry:
Powerful
Language Wtg
focus:
Free verse
nature poems
based on
observation
Live Unit:
Chat Show
Challenge*S&L
Wtg Focus:
Structured argument
writing
Using questions in
writing
Newspaper Articles
Fiction:
The Iron Man
Wtg focus: Composing
a conversation
Diary entry
Create imaginary
creature
Story writing
Non-fiction:
What is Blood
For? Wtg focus:
Plan to write an Ebook screen of
their own.
Comprehension
Revision :
Wtg focus:
Explanation of
answers using
the text to
support.
Poetry: Tell Me A
Fiction:
Story
Oranges in No Man’s Land
Wtg Focus: Write a
Wtg Focus: Plan, edit and write a
‘back story’ to a
story from a diff. character’s
poem;
point of view
autobiographical
narrative poem
Poetry:
Fiction: Fantastic,
Fiction:
Poetic Voices
Funny, Frightening
Pig Heart Boy
Wtg focus:
Wtg focus: To
Wtg Focus: To
Imagery and
develop informal
develop a
use of
and formal language persuasive
language
and improve editing
argument.
patterns
skills.
Fiction:
Boy in the
Striped
Pyjamas Wtg
focus: Author’s
style of writing
and diary
entries.
Live Unit (fiction with
S&L):
Storytellers
Wtg focus: Compose
retell for a
performance,
evaluation and
reflecting
Live Unit:
Act It Out!
Wtg focus:
Script writing using an
alternative ending.
Fiction:
Salamander
Dream Wtg focus:
Scripts for graphic
novel openings.
Rewrite an
episode as a
traditional story.