Overview of Texts Used in Each Year Group
Texts Used in Each Year Group and Talk For Writing The quality of the text is more important than whether it fits with the termly theme. |
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EYFS |
All About Me Aliens Love Underpants |
Food Handa’s Surprise The Tiger Who Came to Tea (T4W) |
Traditional Tales Little Red Hen (TFW) Three Little Pigs (TFW) Elves and the Shoemaker + more |
Transport/People Naughty Bus |
Minibeasts Hungry Caterpillar (TFW) Superworm |
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Y1 |
Toys Lost in the Toy Museum Disney Toy Story Dogger |
Where My Wellies Take Me Rosie’s Walk (TFW) Skip Through the Seasons Owl Babies Polar Express |
Birds (The Birdy Song) Peely Wally Pigeon Poo Follow the Swallow Pigeon Pie Now I am Five (TFW) |
The Queen (By Royal Appointment) The Queen’s Hat The Queen’s Knickers The Queen and Mr Brown
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The Giantest Beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk (T4W) Jack and the Bean Pie Jim and the Beanstalk This Book Totally Makes Stuff Grow |
Up Our Street Alfie Gets in First On the Way Home The High Street Off to Market A Walk in the Park |
Y2 |
Fire! Fire! Samuel Pepy’s Diary (TFW) Fire Song Poem |
As Cold As Ice Brave Little Penguin (TFW) Penguins Snow Dragon |
Making A Difference Dear Greenpeace Michael Recycle Florence Nightingale (TFW) |
Voyage into the Unknown Jack and the Flum Flum Tree |
Splish, Splash, Splosh Water (Poem) Splish, Splash, Splosh The Secret Garden Tiddler Ning Nang Nong |
Beside the Seaside The Owl and the Pussycat (TFW) Harry and the Jaggerdy Daggers |
Y3 |
Iron Age Rocks |
Rome Sweet Rome |
Grow Like An Egyptian |
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How To Twist a Dragon’s Tale Volcanoes (NF Texts) Moya the Luck Child
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Perfect Hamburger (TFW) |
Magic Finger |
Ghostly Galleon Pirates Next Door When Daddy Fell in the Pond |
Demolition Dad |
The Tunnel The Old Man and the Donkey (TFW) |
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Y4 |
Look Who’s Coming |
Under the Sea |
We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday |
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The Eye of the Viking God Poetry (?) |
Ice Palace |
The Tortoise and the Dare |
Mission to Marathon How to Live Forever |
Cliffhanger Shape Poetry (TFW)
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Y5 |
King of the Castle |
To Infinity and Beyond |
Out of Africa |
All Aboard |
Flubber |
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Tumbleweed Castles (TFW Non- Chron) |
Cosmic |
Sky Hawk The Puma (Poem) used as basis for TFW poem on Osprey |
Time Travelling With a Hamster Spit Nolan – TFW |
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Y6 |
Victorians |
Extreme Earth |
London |
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Street Child (incl TFW) The Charge of the Light Brigade (TFW) Biography of Queen Victoria (LA TFW) |
The Charge of the Light Brigade (TFW)
Wonder |
Ice Trap You Wouldn’t Want to be on Shackleton’s Polar Expedition |
The Promise
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The Day the Crayons Quit
SATs Revision |
TBD |
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RB |
Friends |
Oliver Jeffers |
Transport |
Dinosaurs |
People Who Help Us |
In the Jungle |
The Bad-Tempered Ladybird The Snail and the Whale |
Lost and Found The Way Back Home Stuck Up and Down
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The Naughty Bus Oi Get off Our Train |
The Dirty Great Dinosaur Ten Little Dinosaurs |
Info Texts on each job Percy the Park Keeper Mog and the Vet |
Chester Zoo Information Texts Rumble in the Jungle |
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