Overview of Texts Used in Each Year Group
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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