Unit sequence

Units that make up our curricula are fully sequenced, and aligned to the national curriculum.

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Year 1

1

Word class

2

Simple sentences

3

Writing lower case letters in print

4

Capital letters

5

Numerals 1-10

6

'A Superhero Like You': reading and writing

7

'The Three Billy Goats Gruff': reading and writing

8

'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing

9

Nursery rhymes: reading poetry

10

'Anna Hibiscus' Song': reading and writing

11

Looking after pets: reading and writing

12

'Zim Zam Zoom' by James Carter: reading poetry

13

'Paddington': reading and writing

14

'Wild': reading and writing

15

'Jack and the Beanstalk': reading and writing

16

School trip: writing a recount

17

'Ada Twist Scientist': reading and writing

Year 2

1

Compound sentences

2

Adverbial complex sentences

3

Apostrophes

4

Alternative GPCs for long vowels

5

Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones

6

Suffixes

7

Pre-cursive lower case letters or lower case letters revision

2 unit options
8

The four joins

2 unit options
9

Capital letters and numerals

10

Review: using lead-ins or no lead-ins

2 unit options
11

'Yoshi the Stonecutter': reading

12

'Otherwise': narrative writing

13

'The Wolf, The Duck and the Mouse': book club

14

Monster pizza: instructions writing

15

'The Planet in a Pickle Jar': book club

16

The Great Fire of London: non-chronological report

17

'The Proudest Blue': reading and writing

18

Atinuke and other authors: information text

19

'The Magic Box': reading imaginative poetry

20

Feelings vocabulary

21

Nocturnal animals: non-chronological report

22

'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark': reading

23

School trip: recount writing

24

'Don't Cross the Line!': book club

25

'Lucky Dip': narrative writing

26

'And Tango Makes Three': book club

27

'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams': reading

28

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report

29

Florence Nightingale: diary writing

30

'The Children of Lir': reading

31

Humorous poetry

32

'Grandad's Island': book club

33

Spoken language: sharing your opinion

34

'Leaf': book club

Year 3

1

Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences

2

Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect

3

Speech first punctuation and apostrophes

4

Writing -ed and -ing suffixes

5

More suffixes and silent letters

6

Prefixes, homonyms and homophones

7

Further study of the four joins

8

Letter strings

9

Building fluency in silent letters, homophones, and common exception words

10

Character: big, beautiful and eye words

11

Character: small, confident and shy words

12

Character: clever and clumsy words

13

Developing reading preferences in year 3

14

'Mulan': reading

15

'The BFG': reading and narrative writing

16

The Portia Spider: non-chronological report

17

Poet focus: Joseph Coelho

18

'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing

19

'Swallow's Kiss': book club

20

'The Pebble in my Pocket': reading

21

'The Moon Dragons': reading

22

'The Iron Man': reading

23

'The Iron Man': narrative writing

24

How Bees Make Honey: explanation text

25

'Anansi and the Antelope Baby': reading

26

'The Journey': diary writing

27

'The Sheep Pig': reading

28

'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx': book club

29

King Tut or Healthy Lifestyle: non-chronological report

2 unit options
30

'Rushing Rivers': reading

31

Mummification: explanation text

32

'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and diary writing

33

'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing

34

Poetry inspired by big and small objects: understanding form

35

'Varjak Paw': book club

36

The Stone Age: non-chronological report

37

'The Day the Crayons Quit': reading and writing persuasive letters

Year 4

1

Simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentences

2

Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation

3

Apostrophes and speech punctuation

4

Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials

5

Verb and adjective suffixes

6

Noun and adjective suffixes

7

Suffixes, etymology and homophones

8

Building fluency in the four joins, suffixes and common exception words

9

Weather: wind and hot words

10

Weather: cold, calm and stormy words

11

Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words

12

Developing reading preferences in Year 4

13

'Curious Creatures Glowing in the Dark': reading

14

Anglerfish: non-chronological report

15

'Hansel and Gretel': reading

16

'Little Red Riding Hood': journalistic report

17

'The Borrowers': narrative writing and reading

18

'A Christmas Carol': narrative writing and reading

19

'El Deafo': book club

20

'Walter Tull's Scrapbook': reading

21

'Into the Forest': diary writing

22

John Lyons poetry: reading

23

Healthy eating adverts: persuasive writing

24

'A Journey through Greek Myths': reading

25

'Jabberwocky': narrative writing

26

The digestive system: explanation writing

27

'Escape from Pompeii': reading

28

Weather: descriptive writing

29

'The Wild Robot': book club

30

Ancient Greeks or Anglo-Saxons: non-chronological report

2 unit options
31

'Arthur and the Golden Rope': reading

32

'The Happy Prince': narrative writing and reading

33

'Greenling': reading

34

'Whale Rider': narrative writing

35

Poetry inspired by weather

36

Speeches

37

'Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths': book club

38

'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane': book club

Year 5

1

Five sentence types

2

Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials

3

Three tense forms and modal verbs

4

Speech punctuation, parenthesis and apostrophes

5

Verb, adjective and noun suffixes

6

Noun suffixes, letter strings and homophones

7

Etymology and prefixes

8

Building handwriting fluency through speed, choices and writing dialogue

9

Taste and smell words

10

Action words

11

Developing reading preferences in Year 5

12

'How To Train Your Dragon': reading

13

'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing

14

'Crazy about Cats': reading

15

The aye-aye or wild cats: non-chronological report

2 unit options
16

The Titanic: journalistic report writing

17

Introduction to debate

18

'The Viewer': narrative writing

19

'The Unforgotten Coat': book club

20

'The Highwayman': narrative writing

21

Poetry about personal experiences

22

'The Listeners': reading

23

School uniform: persuasive letter writing

24

'Mirror': reading

25

Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing

26

'Front Desk': book club

27

'Front Desk': persuasive letter writing

28

'Oliver Twist': reading

29

'Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover': reading

30

The Amazon Rainforest: essay writing

31

'Princess Sophia Duleep Singh: My Story': reading

32

Harriet Tubman: biographical writing

33

Poetry inspired by animals

34

'Wonder': book club

Year 6

1

Using five sentence types

2

Key terminology, including determiners, fronted adverbials and parenthesis

3

Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice

4

Punctuation

5

Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons

6

Homophones and tense

7

Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words

8

Review and revision of all taught spelling

9

Building fluency with note taking, choice, quotations and emphasis

10

Emotions words

11

Setting words

12

Developing reading preferences in Year 6

13

Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing

14

'Sherlock Holmes': descriptive and letter writing

15

'Coming To England': reading

16

Charles Darwin: biographical writing

17

Pandas or Antarctic animals: non-chronological report

2 unit options
18

'Blackberry Blue': reading

19

'Girl of Ink and Stars': book club

20

'Shackleton's Journey': reading

21

Climate emergency: journalistic report writing

22

Poetry about migration

23

The Empire Windrush: diary writing

24

The Empire Windrush: essay writing

25

'Beowulf': reading

26

'Beowulf': narrative writing

27

'When Stars are Scattered': book club

28

'A Kind of Spark': reading

29

'A Kind of Spark': narrative writing

30

'When the Sky Falls': reading

31

'When the Sky Falls': narrative and journalistic report writing

32

Polar regions: essay writing

33

Poetry of place

34

Ancient Islamic civilisation: essay writing

35

'No Country' and 'Frizzy': graphic novels exploring identity and belonging

36

'Cloud Busting': book club

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