Literacy Rec/Year1 New Framework Plan: Spring A – Weeks 1-2
Unit 2B Narrative: Stories with repeating patterns
Chn explore books with repeated phrases/sentences and use these as the basis for their own writing. Chn will create
additional pages to known stories and will also produce their own book, based on the imaged adventures of their soft toys.
Strands 1-4
Strands 5-6
Strands 7-10
Strands 11-12
Week
Speaking/Listening/Drama Word Level
Text Level
Sentence/Presentation
Reception
Week 1
Year 1
Week 1
1&2. Extend their vocabulary,
exploring the meanings & sounds of
new words.
2. Listen with enjoyment and
respond to stories, songs and other
music.
3. Interact with others, negotiating
plans and activities and taking turns
in conversation.
4. Use language to imagine and
recreate roles and experiences.
5. Explore & experiment with
sounds, words & texts.
6. Use phonic knowledge to write
simple regular words & make
phonetically plausible attempts
at more complex words.
5. Hear & say sounds in words.
5. Read a range of familiar &
common words independently.
5. Read simple words by
sounding out & blending the
phonemes all through the word
from left to right.
1. Experiment with & build new
stores of words to communicate in
different contexts.
1. Retell stories, ordering events
using story language.
2. Listen with sustained
concentration building new stores of
words in different contexts.
3. Take turns to speak and listen to
others’ suggestions and talk about
what they are going to do.
4. Act out their own and well-known
stories, using voices for characters.
5. Apply phonic knowledge and
skills as the prime approach to
reading unfamiliar words that
are not completely decodable.
6. Spell new words using phonics
as the prime approach.
6. Recognise and use alternative
ways of spelling the graphemes
already taught and begin to
know which words contain which
spelling alternatives.
7. Know that print carries meaning.
7. Retell narratives in the correct
sequence.
8. Listen with enjoyment to stories,
sustain attentive listening, and respond
with relevant comments, questions and
actions.
7 & 8. Show an understanding of the
elements of stories such as main
character, sequence of events and
openings and how information can be found
in non-fiction texts to answer questions
about where, who, why and how.
9 & 10. Attempt writing for various
purposes.
7. Identify the main events and
characters in stories, and find specific
information in simple texts.
7. Recognise the main elements that shape
different texts.
7. Explore the effects of patterns of
language and repeated words and phrases.
8. Visualise and comment on events,
characters and ideas, making imaginative
links to their own experiences.
9. Create short simple texts on paper that
combine words and images.
9. Use key features of narrative in their
own writing.
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11. Write their own names and
other things such as labels and
captions and begin to form
simple sentence sometimes using
punctuation.
11 Compose and write simple
sentence independently to
communicate meaning.
R/Y1 N Unit 2B – SprB – Weeks 1 – 2
Literacy Rec/Year1 New Framework Plan: Spring A – Weeks 1-2
Unit 2B Narrative: Stories with repeating patterns
Reception
Week 2
Year 1
Week 2
Themes
1&3. Use talk to organise, sequence
and clarify thinking, ideas, feelings
and events.
1&2. Extend their vocabulary,
exploring the meanings & sounds of
new words.
2. Sustain attentive listening,
responding to what they have heard.
3. Interact with others, negotiating
plans and activities and taking turns
in conversation.
4. Use language to imagine and
recreate roles and experiences.
1. Tell stories and describe incidents
from their own experience in an
audible voice.
1. Experiment with & build new
stores of words to communicate in
different contexts.
2. Listen with sustained
concentration building new stores of
words in different contexts.
3. Take turns to speak, listen to
others’ suggestions & talk about
what they are going to do.
3. Explain their views to others in a
small group.
6. Use phonic knowledge to write
simple regular words and make
phonetically plausible attempts
at more complex words (and
phrases).
7. Re-tell narratives in the correct
sequence, drawing on the language
patterns of stories.
7. Extend their vocabulary, exploring the
meanings & sounds of new words.
9. Attempt writing for various purposes
using features of different forms such as
stories.
11. Write their own names and
other things such as labels and
captions and begin to form
simple sentences sometimes
using punctuation.
12. Use a pencil and hold it
effectively to form recognisable
letters, most of which are
correctly formed.
5. Apply phonic knowledge &
skills as the prime approach to
spelling new & unfamiliar words.
9. Independently choose what to write
about, plan and follow it through.
9. Use key features of narrative in their
own work.
9. Create short simple texts on paper that
combine words and images.
10. Write chronological texts using simple
structures.
11. Compose and write simple
sentences independently to
communicate meaning.
11. Use capital letters and full
stops when correctly
punctuating simple sentences.
12. Write most letters,
correctly formed and
orientated, using a comfortable
and efficient pencil grip.
12. Write with spaces between
words accurately.
Characters, collaborative work, comparing stories, dialogue, handwriting, narrative, reading & writing simple repeated phrases and
sentences, role-play, sentence structure, sequencing, settings, shared reading & writing, sounds, story structure.
© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, 2009 who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users.
R/Y1 N Unit 2B – SprB – Weeks 1 – 2