KS1 & KS2 English
Unit sequence
Introducing our new curriculum sequence for 2023/2024!
Units that make up our curricula are fully sequenced, and aligned to the national curriculum.
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Threads are groups of units across the curriculum that build a common body of knowledge
Year group
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
Suffixes
6
Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones
7
Pre-cursive lower case letters or lower case letters revision
2 unit options
8
Review: using lead-ins or no lead-ins
2 unit options
9
The four joins
2 unit options
10
Capital letters and numerals
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
Angler fish: 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
'The 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: reading
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': 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: reading
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
Migration poetry
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 diary 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
'Cloudbusting': book club
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