Year 1/2 Mixed Age English Planning

Enjoy reading Diary of a Wombat and Waiting for Goliath in this lovely block. Learn to spell and capitalise the days of the week. Look at the use of first-person and find and use past tense verbs. Write postcards, letters and diary entries.

Explore the wonderful nonsense poetry of Edward Lear. Create noun phrases to write about characters and settings from the poems. Plan, draft and write a story sequel to the Owl and the Pussycat.

Using The Story Blanket, Wolfy and other stories explore traditional tales and fables. Learn about the past tense and conjunctions and how to use these to write your own exciting tale.

Enjoy reading letters and postcards in three different texts: Dear Dinosaur, Dear Postman and Dear Father Christmas. Look at sentence types and learn how to add adjectives, adverbs and prepositions to enhance descriptive writing. Write letters and postcards for a range of purposes.

Explore the classic stories of Beatrix Potter. Compare stories and write imaginatively in response. Learn about verb tenses and revise sentence punctuation. Sequence events from Two Bad Mice and plan and write a version of their own.

Explore the sights, sounds, smells and rhythms of the Caribbean through the wonderful poetry in A Caribbean Dozen. Grammar includes adding suffixes and writing descriptively using adjectives and adverbs. Be inspired to write a poem about a pet and an autobiography!

Enjoy three delightful picture books, The Invisible, The Night Gardener and Last Stop on Market Street. Learn spelling rules for adding prefixes and suffixes. Be inspired to write a story using vivid descriptive language.

Starting with Emily Gravett's beautiful books, Tidy and Too Much Stuff, explore instructional language and write instructions for improving the classroom and school environment. Study sentence types and verb tenses.

Read and enjoy contemporary American picture books including Where the Wild Things Are and It's a Book. Revise conjunctions and verb tenses before writing a story about their own fantastic adventure.

Using An Interview with a Tiger, learn more about a range of animals, find information, make notes and create fact files. Revise sentence types and practise writing descriptively before writing a class information book.

Read and enjoy several short stories about Betsey Biggalow. Make predictions and write creatively about characters and settings. Learn how to use subordinating conjunctions and revise verb tenses before writing a short story.

Using food-focused stories as inspiration, write instructions linked to the characters and themes. Revise commas in lists and explore sentence types. Compare the texts read and write a book review.

Learn all about instructional writing - play board games, learn new playground games and design an online game. Identify different sentence types and use imperative verbs to write your own instructions.

Read and enjoy We're Going to Find a Monster by Malorie Blackman plus a selection of other poems about monsters. Identify rhyme and spelling patterns, imagine and describe your own monster and compare poems.

Enjoy reading The Birthday Duck and The Little Island exploring characters, setting and plot. Use adjectives to write descriptively and learn about verb tenses. Bring it all together to write a story based on those read.

Read and enjoy The Day the Crayons Quit and Meerkat Mail, examining how letters are used to tell the story. Revise conjunctions and learn spelling rules for comparatives and superlatives. Write postcards, letters and emails in response to those read.

Share written and oral versions of traditional tales including The Great Race, The Runaway Wok and The Race Across the River. Have fun retelling the stories and creating your own versions using story maps. Learn how to use co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions and apostrophes in sentences.

Explore different styles of poems using the fun topic of aliens. Revise adjectives, nouns, verbs and use suffixes to create nouns. Compare poems, write and perform their own poems.

Enjoy reading and comparing David Walliams' There is a Snake and Tony Ross' The Creature Choir. Have fun writing animal profiles and short stories. Learn how to spell past tense verbs and and use conjunctions. Be imaginative by writing a story continuation for I want a Pet by Lauren Child.

Enjoy reading This is How We Do It by Matt Lamothe, The Animals’ Outing by Ruth Merttens and On the Way Home by Jill Murphy. Understand the features of a recount, explore the progressive form of past tense and write a recount about an event they experienced.

Enjoy reading and comparing picture books about Ralfy Rabbit by Emily Mackenzie. Use Charlie Cooks Favourite Book as inspiration to write your own stories about well-known characters. Explore how adjectives can be turned into adverbs and how conjunctions can be used.

Use Library Lion as inspiration to create your own set of rules and posters. Enjoy sharing King of the Birds and writing persuasive letters about who should be monarch. Revise statements, questions and commands and have fun with alliteration.

Enjoy reading Gustavo the Shy Ghost and What if.....? Discuss the characters' feelings and create atmospheric descriptions. Revise past and present tense and learn about progressive form. Share Arlo the Lion who Couldn't Sleep; use story maps to plan your own version of this story including a new character.

Develop familiarity of non-fiction texts by exploring Crazy About Cats and answering comprehension questions. Find out about wild animals and enjoy writing a class information book on big, bad and scary animals. Discover how to use adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases to enhance writing.