English

Intent

At Sutton Manor, children will learn to become expert readers and writers with a love for literature and the English language. We have planned our reading curriculum around the Little Wandle reading scheme. Our comprehension instruction is based on a set of skills which children learn to use independently as they are explicitly taught and modelled. In every sequence of learning, children will learn about fiction, non-fiction and poetry reading and writing.

Reading

Daily phonics lessons for children in Reception, Year one and Year two follow the Little Wandle Scheme. In Reception, Year One and Year Two, children take home a reading book matched to their phonics phase. As children move through Year 2 and into Year 3, their phonics knowledge becomes more fluent and automatic, and they take home a reading book to practise both the decoding and comprehension techniques they are being taught. In years 3-6, all children take home a book matched to their age.

All children from Rec-Y6 visit the library once a week and take home a book of their choice to read.

Key Stage One Reading Skills

Define

Retrieve

Sequence

Predict

Infer

Draw on knowledge of vocabulary to understand texts

Identify & explain key aspects of texts, such as characters, events, titles, and information

Identify and explain the sequence of events in a text

Predict what might happen based on what has been read so far

Make inferences from the text

Key Stage Two Reading Skills

Define

Retrieve

Predict

Infer

Relate

Explore

Summarise

Compare

Explain the meaning and impact of words in context

Retrieve and record information and key details from fiction and non-fiction

Predict what might happen from the details stated and implied

Make inferences from the text. Explain and justify these with evidence

Identify and explain how content is related and contributes to meaning

Identify & explain how meaning is enhanced through the choice of words and phrases

Summarise main ideas from within and across paragraphs and texts

Make comparisons within and across texts

Reading Curriculum

We have carefully planned the texts children will use a part of their Engish learning.

	Autumn I	Autumn II	Spring I	Spring II	Summer I	Summer II
T	Three Little Pigs	Gingerbread Man	The Enormous Turnip	Jack and the Beanstalk	Goldilocks and the three Bears	Little Red Riding Hood
	From Head to Toe 10 Little Fingers/ 10 Tiny Toes Wow says the Owl	Brave Little Polar Bear Rama and Sita My First Diwali The Nativity	Dear Zoo Oh Dear We’re Going on a Bear Hunt	Don’t Call Me Sweet The Runaway Pancake Dr Pig	Jasper’s Beanstalk The Very Hungry Caterpillar Rosie’s Hat	Train Ride Barry the Fish with Fingers 10 Little Pirates
	Humpty Dumpty	Twinkle Twinkle	Baa baa black sheep	Ring a roses	Incy Wincy	Jack and Jill
N	Three Little Pigs	Gingerbread Man	The Enormous Turnip	Jack and the Beanstalk	Goldilocks and the Three Bears	Little Red Riding Hood
	Goat Goes to Playgroup My Funny Family Mixed Owl Babies	Tap The Magic Tree My First Diwali Postman Bear Busy Nativity	Lost and Found Cuddly Duddly Farmer Duck	Mr Wolf’s pancakes Oliver’s Vegetables Titus’s Troublesome Tooth Patrolling Police cars	Superworm Walters Wonderful Web Titch	The Whales on the Bus Jolly Olly Octopus Pirates Love Underpants
	Jack and Jill	Little Jack Horner	Hey Diddle Diddle	Miss Polly	Little Miss Muffet	1,2,3,4,5 Fish Alive
R	Three Little Pigs	Gingerbread Man	The Enormous Turnip	Jack and the Beanstalk	Goldilocks and the 3 Bears	Little Red Riding Hood
	Our Class is a Family Pete the Cat’s School Shoes Funny Bones The Leaf Thief	Martha Maps it Out The Best Diwali Ever Stick Man The Nativity	Lanterns and Firecrackers The Tiger who came to Tea Night Monkey Day Monkey	Sam’s Scary Teeth Flashing Fire Engines Topsy and Tim and the Firefighters	Aghh Spider! The Extraordinary Gardener The Tiny Seed	Sharing a Shell The Pirates Next Door The Snail and the Whale
	Doctor Foster	Little Jack Horner	Queen of Hearts	Sing a Song of Sixpence	Little Miss Muffet	Grand old Duke of York
1	The Lion King	The Bog Baby Elmer	Lost and Found The Odd Egg	Beegu The something Else	Dogger Giraffe’s Can’t Dance	The Rabbit Problem Peter Rabbit
1	Pirate Pete – James Carter	Zim Zam Zoom – James Carter	Sounds Good – Judith Nicholls	Voices of Water – Tony Mitton	On the Beach – Michael Rosen	Queue for the Zoo - Clare Bevan
2	The Wish Granter	Lila and the Secret of Rain	Man on the Moon	Traction Man	Tuesday	Little Evie in the Wild Wood
2	Shhhhhh! - Julia Donaldson	November night countdown – Moira Andrew	Don’t - John Kitching	Nut Tree – Julia Donaldson	On the Ning Nang Nong – Spike Milligan	The Dinosaur Rap - John Foster
3	The Present	Orion and the Dark	Stone Age Boy	The Flower	The Proudest Blue	Pig Heart Boy
3	The Sound Collector - Roger McGough	Today, I feel – Gervase Phinn	Please Mrs Butler –Allan Ahlberg	Twenty-Four Hours – Charles Causley	A Dragon in the Classroom – Charles Thomson	Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf – Roald Dahl
4	Alma	A Christmas Carol	The Incredible Book Eating Boy	The Promise	The Nowhere Emporium	Escape from Pompeii
4	Question Time – Julia Donaldson	Jack Frost in the Garden – John P Smeeton	Creative writing – Gervase Phinn	The Reader of this poem – Roger McGough	Macavity – T.S Elliot	Oh I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth – Pam Ayres
5	The Piano	Macbeth	Holes	The Secret Garden	The Highwayman	Wonder
5	Rum Tum Tugger – T.S Elliot	Spell of Creation – Kathleen Raine	From a Railway Carriage – R.L Stevenson	The Ghost Teacher – Allan Ahlberg	The Pied Piper – Robert Browning	The River – Valerie Bloom
6	The Alchemist	A Midsummer Night’s Dream	Trash	The Final Year	The Boy at the Back of the Class	Eren
6	The Listeners – Walter De La Mare	Talking Turkeys – Benjamin Zephaniah	The Visitor – Ian Serraillier	The Night Mail – W.H. Auden	The Daffodils – William Wordsworth	For Word – Benjamin Zephaniah

Writing

Grammar, punctuation Handwriting & Spelling

Handwriting and spelling are taught and practised in a daily session. This learning is reinforced in the daily English session. For the first two weeks of each English sequence, previously learned grammar, punctuation, and spelling is revisited through quick tasks, tests, and quizzes. In week 3-6, new grammar and punctuation content is taught using the context of the text. This is practised and contextualised in short pieces of writing.

Our teaching of writing is focused on the purpose and audience. This means that teaching and learning time is spent exploring techniques to write for purpose. The purpose is the main driver of teaching and learning and is strategically planned across the curriculum, within each purpose, teachers make decisions about which genres best support the purpose in different curriculum areas; the table below will guide teacher choices. Once a genre has been taught in English, we would expect children to independently apply their knowledge across the curriculum; for example, in year 3 and 4, we would expect children to write a recount, postcard or instructions without support; in year 5 or 6, we would expect them to write a letter or biography without support.

	Entertain	Inform	Persuade	Discuss
KS1	Story Description Poetry	Recount Postcard Instructions
LKS2	Narrative Description Poetry	Explanation Biography Letter Email	Advert Letter
UKS2	Narrative Description Poetry	Hybrid Report Essay	Advert Speech	Argument Discussion Essay