Oakfield Infant and Junior School Medium Term Plan

Literacy Medium Term Plan Year 2 Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry

n Stories in familiar settings Postcards & Letters Songs and repetitive poems

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t A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy John Patrick Norman McHennessy by John The Works chosen by Paul Cookson u You Choose by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart Burningham

A Description: The Pet that Flew – Hamilton Animated Tale and Dear Teacher by Amy Husband Read and enjoy poems with repeating patterns. Then Group Readers The Three Guinea Fowl – Hamilton Group Readers write some of your own about what you see when Description: Description: walking to school, focussing on using fantastic Explore familiar settings through Margaret Mahy’s Be inspired to write letters with fantastic excuses by adjectives. Look at patterns in songs by learning, story A Lion in the Meadow. Chn generate ideas and reading John Patrick Norman McHennessy by John singing, writing and performing rounds. plan a story about an animal that lives in their house Burningham. Create an illustrated letter describing an Grammar focus: under the stairs. There is a focus on using simple amazing adventure based Dear Teacher by Amy 1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify, punctuation and story problems and solutions. Husband. Find out about telegrams & emails. e.g. adjectives to describe nouns Grammar focus: Grammar focus: 2. Use and understand grammar terminology 1. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including 1. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including capital letters, full stops, question or exclamation capital letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks marks 2. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: 2. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command. statement, question, exclamation, command.

Traditional Tales Information texts Traditional poems for young children Required texts: Required texts: Required texts: Hamilton Traditional Tales: Ant & Grasshopper Dogs by Emily Gravett The Works chosen by Paul Cookson – available from Hamilton Education Matilda’s Cat by Emily Gravett Description: The Frog & the Scorpion – Hamilton oral story Boris and Sid find a tiger – Hamilton Group Readers Read, enjoy and learn by heart, Edward Lear’s Description: Chicken and Shark – Hamilton Group Readers wonderful nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat. Explore the brilliant fables: The Frog and the Scorpion Description: Find out about Edward Lear and explore some of his and The Ant and the Grasshopper. Write a dialogue Kick starting this unit about pets, chn will read the limericks. Read limericks written by other people. Have between grasshopper’s indignant sister and the cruel lovely books, Dogs and Matilda’s Cat. They will fun writing a limerick with support. ant! Look at compound sentences and storytelling compare these books to information texts before Grammar focus: skills. Write a fable. researching and creating their own information pages 1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify, Grammar focus: on an unusual pet! e.g. adjectives to describe nouns 1. Co-ordination: use conjunctions (and, or, but) to join Grammar focus: 2. Use and understand grammar terminology Oakfield Infant and Junior School Medium Term Plan

Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry simple sentences 1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and specify, 2. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including e.g. adjectives to describe nouns capital letters, full stops, question or exclamation 2. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, incl. capital marks letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks 3. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: 3. Learn how to use sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command. statement, question, exclamation, command.

Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry

g Traditional tales from a variety of cultures Instructions The Senses n i

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p Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne, Walker Instructions by Neil Gaiman, Bloomsbury The Works chosen by Paul Cookson S Hansel and Gretel Ladybird Tales, Ladybird, I Description: Description: Baba Yaga and the Stolen Baby, Alison Lurie Use Instructions by Neil Gaiman to introduce chn to Explore the senses through poetry. Read a range of Baba Yaga, Tony Bradman, Oxford Reading Tree writing instructions. Explore features of instructions different poems and learn some by heart. Go on a Why not me? Hamilton Group Readers including bossy verbs. Identify exciting tricky words & poetry walk to the playground or nature area to Description: discuss how to decode them. Chn write instructions using collect some wonderful describing words. Write Read & compare Hansel & Gretel & Baba Yaga stimulus of map of Fairy-tale Land. simple poems using adjectives and adjectival using drama & story maps. Discuss joining Grammar focus: phrases. sentences using or, and or but. Chn write witch 1. Demarcate sentences using capital letters, full stops, Grammar focus: stories using story pegs to plan. Introduce some question or exclamation marks. 1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and ‘story language’ & encourage interesting endings. specify, e.g. adjectives to describe nouns Grammar focus: 2. Use and understand grammar terminology 1. Use conjunctions ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’ to join sentences 3. Use ‘when’, ‘if’, ‘that’, ‘because’ to create 2. Use ‘when’, ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘where’ etc. to create subordinate clauses. subordinate clauses. 3. Demarcate sentences using capital letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks Stories involving fantasy Recounts Humorous poems Required texts: Required texts: Required texts: The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward Diary of a Wombat. Jackie French. Harper Collins The Works chosen by Paul Cookson George and the Dragon by Chris Wormell Diary of a Baby Wombat. Jackie French. Harper Collins Description: The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch Chicken’s Bad Dream – Hamilton Group Readers This unit is based around the wonderful poem, Oakfield Infant and Junior School Medium Term Plan

Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry Description: The dog who wouldn’t stop barking – Hamilton Group Aliens Stole My Underpants. Chn will memorise The children are introduced to The Dragon Machine by Readers and perform this poem, describe objects to aliens Helen Ward and other well known dragon stories. They The Owl and the Moon – Hamilton Group Readers using adjectives before finally writing their own create a dragon and write similes to describe it. They Description: alien poems. then write dragon stories with a focus on using This plan is a unique twist of a recount plan. Based on the Grammar focus: conjunctions to write longer sentences. lovely story Diary of a Wombat, chn use conjunctions to 1. Use expanded noun phrases to describe and Grammar focus: expand sentences before writing their own recounts in a specify, e.g. adjectives to describe nouns 1. Use adjectives to describe nouns diary form about an English animal. Grammar focus: 2. Use and understand grammar terminology 2. Use conjunctions ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’ to join sentences 3. 1. Learn how to use punctuation correctly, including Use conjunctions (when, if, because) to add subordinate capital letters, full stops, question or exclamation marks. clauses 2. Use conjunctions ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’ to join sentences 3. Use ‘when’, ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘where’ etc. to create subordinate clauses.

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m Quest and adventure stories Information texts Favourite poems

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u Lost and Found AND The Way Back Home by Oliver Harry and The Bucketful of Dinosaurs by Ian Whybrow A selection of classic poems is provided in resources S Jeffries Nana, what is an information text? By Ruth Merttens. Description: We’re going on a bear hunt by Michael Rosen Hamilton Group Reader Chn listen to and read a range of poems of different The Quest Hamilton Group Readers Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson types. They choose their favourite of each type and Description: Description: write it out in their best handwriting. Discuss Chn read a range of quest stories, exploring structure punctuation used in poetry and the features of good Chn learn about the different dinosaurs in Harry and and language choice. They explore 4 types of sentence handwriting. Chn recite their favourite poem from the Bucketful of Dinosaurs. They explore the features and experiment with tense. Chn write their own home. of information texts and write a fact file about a extended stories, concluding by performing their dinosaur. They write questions, design a quiz and use Grammar focus: writing to a younger child. past and present verb tenses. 1. Use a variety of end of sentence punctuation. Grammar focus: Grammar focus: 2. Use capital letters for the start of lines in poems. 1. Identify and use sentences with different forms 3. Begin to use commas correctly. 1. Learn how to use past and present tense correctly 2. Use and distinguish past and present tense including the progressive form 3. Learn how to use familiar and new punctuation 2. Learn how to use familiar and new punctuation Oakfield Infant and Junior School Medium Term Plan

Term Fiction Non-fiction Poetry

Really looking! Poems about birds Stories by the same author: Anthony Browne Recounts Required texts: Required texts: Required texts: None: selected websites and poems in resources. Willy the Wimp, Gorilla, Silly Billy and The Night Maisie’s Dragon by Philippa Danvers on Description: Shimmy All by Anthony Browne http://www.hamiltonathome.org.uk/5to7/Things2Do/WatchMe/Maisie/122 Children use their imagination to write a class poem Description: about where they would go if they could fly like a bird. Description: Chn learn about the structure and vocabulary of Chn read and discuss some wonderful Anthony Browne They look at eagles and swans and find exciting recounts first by listening to, reading and writing vocabulary. Then they write short poems based on books looking at the features that make them fictional recounts. Then they plan and write a recount distinctive. They use skills of inference to interpret the haiku about birds that interest them. from their own experience using conjunctions to write Grammar focus: stories and create characters for an illustrated story longer sentences. book of their own, based on The Night Shimmy. 1. Use expanded noun phrases in writing descriptions Grammar focus: Grammar focus: 2. Use familiar and new punctuation correctly 1. Use subordination and co-ordination writing 1. Use past tense consistently sentences with two main clauses or with subordinate 2. Use subordination and co-ordination writing clauses sentences with two main clauses or with subordinate 2. Punctuate questions with question marks and clauses sentences with full stops and exclamation marks. 3. Use expanded noun phrases 3. Use grammatical terminology 4. Use familiar and new punctuation correctly