Year 2/3 Mixed Age English Planning

Enjoy two books featuring the 1969 moon landings, The Sea of Tranquility by Mark Haddon and The Darkest Dark by astronaut Chris Hadfield. Compose chronological reports about Apollo 11's mission. Plan and write recounts and fact files about dream jobs. Explore subordinating conjunctions and common prefixes.

Enjoy using The Night Gardener as inspiration for descriptive writing. Create instructions for planting seeds based on The Girl Who Planted Trees. Explore past and present tense and learn about contractions and possessive apostrophes. Share The Woman Who Turned Children Into Birds and write an imaginative recount of a day as a bird.

Think like a scientist with this exciting block focusing on instructions and explanations. Meet Ada Twist, Scientist, and follow her lead by carrying out an experiment, writing instructions for others and explaining how things work. Learn about sentence types and conjunctions along the way.

Explore a selection of poems from the wonderful collection, The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog. Study poetic form and devices and create new poems inspired by those read. Grammar includes extending sentences and understanding and punctuating different types of sentence.

Enjoy reading stories about Anna Hibiscus and her family and jump into the exciting world of the No. 1 Car Spotter. Learn about verb tenses, punctuating dialogue and bring it all together to write a short story of your own.

Spark important conversations about emotions with a selection of stories about feeling angry: The Day No One Was Angry, Angry Arthur and The Tunnel. Learn how to correctly punctuate dialogue, use prepositions to add information before ending the block by writing a short story.

Take inspiration from the remarkable people featured in this block: Marcus Rashford, Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg, among others. Study the features of biographical and autobiographical texts and research and write a short biography.

Explore the excitement of Roz's adventures in The Wild Robot through comprehension activities, writing diary entries and describing settings. Grammar work focuses on expanded noun phrases and punctuating dialogue.

Explore the solar system with Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock's Am I Made of Stardust? Create interactive booklets and explain what it's like to be in space. Grammar includes using paragraphs and conjunctions.

Read and enjoy a wonderful selection of classic poems; discuss poetic features, investigate language and prepare a performance. Grammar includes sentence forms and expressing time, place and cause.

Explore a selection of books about the transformative power of hope and kindness. Be inspired by the wonderful stories to write a story of their own. Grammar includes punctuating dialogue and verb tenses.

Study the language and layout of information texts using Katie Daynes' Can we Really Help the Planet? Learn how we can help the planet and write to persuade others to make changes too. Grammar includes using apostrophes and sentence types.

Using Joseph Coelho's wonderful poetry collection Courage Out Loud, explore a range of poetic techniques and devices. Prepare a poetry performance for an audience and write poetry about overcoming a challenge.