KS1 & KS2 English curriculum

This unit uses and applies all grammatical and sentence building work to narrative character descriptions as well as a personal description of themselves. If pupils completed the 'A Superhero Like You' unit, it will be an opportunity to compare their character descriptions of themselves at the start of the year to now, as well as measure their progress over the year in writing. This unit will prepare pupils to write descriptions of characters and settings in Year 2.

1. Characters and plot in the story 'Ada Twist, Scientist'
2. The theme of resilience in 'Ada Twist, Scientist'
3. Using evidence from 'Ada Twist, Scientist' to write a character description
4. Using descriptive language to describe yourself
5. Exploring aspirations and the future: 'Ada Twist, Scientist'

• Ability to apply phonics knowledge to support decoding when reading and segmenting when spelling.
• Ability to read and write some common exception words.
• Join two simple clauses with the joining word 'and'.
• Ability to think from another person's perspective.
• Understand that an adjective describes a noun.
• Understand that when you use two adjectives to describe a noun, a comma is placed between them.
• Understands simple present, past and future tenses and their purposes.
• Uses evidence from the text to explain answers.
• Ability to answer questions about a personal event.