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Fiction and poetry | - Stories with familiar settings
- Voices in the Park - class text
- George's Marvellous Medicine - teacher-read text
- Poetry (e.g. calligram, shape, list)
| - Traditional stories including fables, myths and legends
- Introduction to playscripts
| - Performance poetry
- Flat Stanley - class text
- Riddles
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Non-fiction | - Information texts - fact file
| | - Chronological texts
- Non-chronological texts
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Related activities | - Character traits
- Story settings – comparing and writing
- Story planning & structure
- Understand terms – fiction, non-fiction, fact
- Comparison of fiction and non-fiction texts
- Poetry - writing using the model of an existing poem
| - Traditional story themes
- Plan, draft and edit an original story
- Using dictionaries
- Follow and write instructions
- Differences between prose and playscripts
- Writing a short playscript
| - Locate information using index etc.
- Write a non-chronological report on an animal
- Write a story based on the model of another
- Story openings and endings
- Rehearse and perform poetry
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Sentence work
Punctuation, parts of speech, word order
| - Basic sentence punctuation
- Identify speech marks (quotation marks)
- Commas in lists
- Adjectives and nouns
- Function of verbs
- Use of synonyms of "said" in dialogue
| - Review punctuation e.g. question and exclamation marks, commas and speech marks
- Capital letters for proper nouns
- Revision of parts of speech – verbs, adjectives, nouns
- Alphabetical order
- Definitions
- Use a dictionary to check spelling
- Verbs in past tense
| - Use connectives to join sentences (e.g. if, so, while)
- Review speech marks
- Phrases/words showing time sequences
- Pronouns
- Review adjectives, nouns and verbs
- Change sentences from singular to plural
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Word work
Spelling, vocabulary | - Learn some high frequency words using Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
- Learn a variety of phonemes to help in spelling
- Regular use of individual spelling workbooks (continue throughout year)
| - Compound words
- Phonemes
- Singular and plural of nouns
| - Use apostrophes for shortened forms
- Opposites
- Silent letters in words
- Common homophones e.g. there/their
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