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1
How Coyote Brought Fire to the Earth (1)
10 lessons
2
How Coyote Brought Fire to the Earth (2)
10 lessons
3
Instructions: How to defeat the fire giants
10 lessons
4
Baba Yaga: openings
10 lessons
5
Baba Yaga: created story (openings)
10 lessons
6
Non-chronological report: All about Witches
10 lessons
7
The Eagle Who Thought He Was A Chicken: characters and problems
10 lessons
8
The Eagle Who Thought He Was A Chicken: recycled story (characters and problems)
10 lessons
9
Explanation: How birds fly
10 lessons
10
Ganesh Gets Married (1)
10 lessons
11
Ganesh Gets Married (2)
10 lessons
12
Who was right: Ganesh or Kartikeya?
10 lessons
13
Persephone: endings
10 lessons
14
Persephone: creation story (endings)
10 lessons
15
Recount: news report
10 lessons
16
The Bird and the Forest Fire: middles
10 lessons
17
The Bird and the Forest Fire: recycled story (middles)
10 lessons
18
Persuasion: Why you should never light fires in a dry forest
10 lessons
19
The Unlucky Man
5 lessons

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Year 2 • English
1
Compound sentences
7 lessons
2
Adverbial complex sentences
5 lessons
3
Apostrophes
3 lessons
4
Alternative GPCs for long vowels
24 lessons
5
Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones
18 lessons
6
Suffixes
18 lessons
7
Pre-cursive lower case letters or lower case letters revision
Pre-cursive lower case letters revision
9 lessons
Lower case letters revision
4 lessons
8
The four joins
The four joins
10 lessons
The four joins and break letters, with no lead-ins
14 lessons
9
Capital letters and numerals
6 lessons
10
Review: using lead-ins or no lead-ins
Handwriting review, using lead-ins
6 lessons
Handwriting review, with no lead-ins
6 lessons
11
'Yoshi the Stonecutter': reading
5 lessons
12
'Otherwise': narrative writing
10 lessons
13
'The Wolf, The Duck and the Mouse': book club
3 lessons
14
Monster pizza: instructions writing
6 lessons
15
'The Planet in a Pickle Jar': book club
3 lessons
16
The Great Fire of London: non-chronological report
9 lessons
17
'The Proudest Blue': reading and writing
8 lessons
18
Atinuke and other authors: information text
7 lessons
19
'The Magic Box': reading imaginative poetry
5 lessons
20
Feelings vocabulary
5 lessons
21
Nocturnal animals: non-chronological report
9 lessons
22
'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark': reading
5 lessons
23
School trip: recount writing
3 lessons
24
'Don't Cross the Line!': book club
2 lessons
25
'Lucky Dip': narrative writing
10 lessons
26
'And Tango Makes Three': book club
2 lessons
27
'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams': reading
3 lessons
28
Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report
7 lessons
29
Florence Nightingale: diary writing
5 lessons
30
'The Children of Lir': reading
5 lessons
31
Humorous poetry
5 lessons
32
'Grandad's Island': book club
3 lessons
33
Spoken language: sharing your opinion
3 lessons
34
'Leaf': book club
3 lessons
35
Sharing our opinions: agreeing and disagreeing
3 lessons