English At Peel Hall we have linked our ‘Learning Challenge’ curriculum to the writing we do. We use a selection of quality texts, experiences and hooks to inspire writing. The information below provides an overview of the quality texts we use for each year group. Year 1 Key resources Topic title (films, web sites, Non-fiction Fiction Poetry visits) Autumn 1 Experience: Where my wellies take me – The Lonely Beast – Chris Youtube – wind – what it Where do my Visit around the Morpurgo Judge (& trailer) does, wellies take me? local area – take Start up geography – Our local Home before dark - Beck Create a wind word bank photos for the class area – Lee The wind and the sun story eg. blustery, windy, breeze, book How the weather works – Dorian Oh say can you say what’s the typhoon Mucky Knees Weather (Usborne beginners) – weather today – Dr Seuss Weather poems for all Clarke Alfie Weather – Hughes seasons – Hopkins & Hall Film; Weather (Eye know) – Dorling The windy day – Milbourne Poetry Paint box: weather William’s Wish Kindersley The wind blew - Hutchins poems – Foster Wellingtons The drops goes plop – a first The rainy day – Milbourne The Wind – Reeves look at the water cycle – Stormy weather – Gliori Who has seen the wind? – Godwin & Abel Rossetti Perform their class wind poem Autumn 2 Experience: Teacher book: Curriculum focus Dogger – Hughes Night before Christmas – Why do we play Visit to Hamleys – Toys The angel and the soldier boy Clement C. Moore with different Builder Bear Magic Grandad – Toys – Collington toys to our Film: Start up history – Stuart Ross The night the toys came to parents and Mr Magorium’s Dorling Kindersley - Toy Story life- Blyton grandparents? Wonder Emporium (non-fiction) While you are sleeping – (toy shop) Deacon Bag Puss (antique Old bear – Hissey shop with toys) Lost in the toy museum – an Toy Story adventure – Lucas The angel and the Toy boat – Randall de Seve soldier boy Nutcracker Role play: Magic Toy Shop Spring 1 Experience: Polar Regions (Planet Earth) - The red sleigh – (fantastic Antarctic antics – A book of Why can’t a TEN centre – hot Parker picture book – great for penguin poems – Sierra meerkat live in and cold land South pole non-fiction texts: retelling the story the North Pole? experience Igloos and Inuit Life (Big Picture: Homes) - Spilsbury North Pole fiction: Why do explorers Film: (linked to the Living in the Arctic (Rookie The Great Explorer – Chris enjoy visiting the South Pole) Read) - Fowler Judd (great text for retelling North and South Happy Feet Artic and Antartic (Eye Wonder) what happens when the Dad is Pole? Polar Express L Mack lost) Lost and Found Polar Bears – Ready to read - The big dark - Prater (all March of the Cooper about living in darkness) penguins Stay Cool: A Polar Bear's Guide Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What To Life - Regan & Chester Do You Hear?- Eric Carle South pole non-fiction texts: (quite a simple text) An Antarctic habitat Little Polar Bear - Hans de (introducing habitats) – Aloian Beer Penguins – Usborne beginners The little reindeer – Forman Antarctic – Usborne beginners (fantastic images of reindeer Pull Ahead Continents: and life in the north pole) Antarctica (Pull Ahead Books - Continents) [Paperback] South Pole fiction: Lost and Found - Jeffers The Emperor’s Egg – Jenkins Penguin Small - Inkpen Solo – The Little Penguin – Geraghty Penguin – Dunbar Penguin Small – Inkpen The penguin that wanted to find out – Tomlinson Cuddly Duddly – Alborough Penguins – Bone Spring 2 Explanation: Wonderwise: What's Up?: A Whatever next - Murphy Roaring Rockets – Mitton & Why do we want Planetarium book about the sky and space Man on the moon – Simon Parke to go to the TENS centre - Manning & Granstrom Bartram Space poems – Morgan moon? Film: Moonwalk – Callery (good text Bob’s best friend – Simon A grand day out for ideas for different ways to Bartram Clangers present information) Aliens in underpants Baboon on the moon The first moon landing – a We're off to look for aliens – Button Moon graphic text McNaughton Moon landing The sea of tranquillity – Haddon Q Pootle 5 & Q Pootle in One Giant leap – the story of space - Butterworth Neil Armstong – Brown On the moon Stanley Space Alienography – Riddell (picture adventure - Frais reference with lots of different The aliens are coming - Mc aliens) Naughton G is for Gzonk – Di Terlizzi How to catch a star – Oliver (picture reference) Jeffers The way back home - Oliver Jeffers UFO – Kitamaru Bringing down the moon – Emmett Stars – Frazee (beautiful language) Star seeker – Heine (beautiful language) Summer 1 Experience: Wonderwise: My Body, Your The leaf man – Ehlert What happens Visit to the garden Body: A book about human and Enormous turnip when things grow centre animal bodies Jack and the beanstalk and grow? Role play: Doing the Garden - Jasper’s beanstalk – Percy wants to Sarah Garland Butterworth & Inkpen retire and they Jack's Garden -Henry Cole Jim and the beanstalk – Briggs need to find a new Little green helpers – Grow - Eating the alphabet – Ehlert park keeper Engel (good for a different way Oliver’s Vegetables – French to present information as it had Oliver’s Fruit Salad – French push-up tabs) Oliver’s Milk Shake – French Plant (Eye Know) - Arlon Black dog – Levi Pinfold (a dog Bean diary that grows bigger than a house) The biggest bed in the world! Katie and the sunflowers – - Camp (family that grow and Mayhem grow) Chistopher Nibble – Middleton (Guinea pig that must save everyone by knowing how to grow a dandelion) Oh no monster tomato – Helmore (return of the killer tomatoes – a great pop-up book) Summer 2 Experience: Creative Planning / Pirates & A new home for a pirate – Pirate poems – Harmer Would you like to Visit from Jack Seaside - Peet Armitage ( a key text – see Talk Class Three All At Sea - be a pirate? Sparrow Pirate Things to Make and Do for Writing clip) Jarman Film: (Usborne Activities) - Gilpin Captain Beastie’s Pirate Party Ten little Pirates – Brownlow How to be a pirate Horrible Histories – Pirates – Coats & Mould (lots of & Rickety Peter Pan (animated Handbook – Terry Deary (good language play and pirate speak!) and real life) for teaching ideas) The Pirates next door - Duddle Pirates (Ardman) Imagine you’re a pirate – Meg & Pirate House Swap – Lonstaff & Captain Flinn and Blackheart Chambers (landlubbers and the pirate dinosaurs How to be a pirate in 7 day or pirates swap their homes!) - (you tube) less – Lewis (a very good factual Mrs Pirate (Read Me Beginners Channelography.ratt text) Series) - lecentral.com/progr 1001 pirate things to spot – Sharratt ammes/b00k7tmt – Lloyd Jones Captain Flinn and the pirate link to episode 34 Pirate ships - Usborne lift the dinosaurs - Andreae of Sceebies flap book - Lloyd The night pirates - Harris bedtime stories A Bloodthirsty pirates – clever Toms pirate ship new home for a Clogs (great text full of Captain Beasties Pirate Party – pirate information) Coats & Mould Tim, Ted and the pirates The pirate treasure map: a fairytale adventure – Hawkins Year 2 Key resources (films, Non-fiction Fiction Topic Title web sites, visits) Poetry Autumn 1 Stimuli: Prehistoric Record breaker Little Green Dinosaur Stomp, chomp, big roars here What will A dragon’s egg The Usborne big book of big (Consultant’s simple lost and come the dinosaurs – Umansky & hatch out dinosaurs found story) Sharratt of the egg? Experience: Tyrannosaurus Rex The Somethingosaurus – Mitton Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus – (Dinosaur Visit to Manchester Dinosaur meat eaters & Ayto (good lost and found Mitton Parker-Rees focus) Museum Dinosaur duel based story) Dinosaur Poems – Foster Dinosaur mums and babies The egg - M. Robertson (to Film: How to grow a dinosaur – Hart & read to them about looking Dinosaur (Disney) Eaves (fiction & instructions) after an egg) Ice Age 3 DK Nature activities - Rock and Bumposaurus - P McKinlay fossil hunter Dinosaurs galore – Andrea Dinosaur things to make and do Dinosaur roar – Strickland – Gilpin Winnie’s Dinosaur Day – How to grow a dinosaur – Hart Thomas & Paul (fun text) The Littlest Dinosaur– Foreman Tyrannosaurus Drip – Donaldson & Roberts Dinosaur who lost his roar - Dinosaur’s diary – Donaldson Dinosaurs love underpants – Freedman & Court Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs - Whybrow Tom and the island of dinosaurs - Beck Tom and the dinosaur egg - Beck Mungo and the dinosaur island – Knapman Dinosaurs love underpants – Freedman Crunch, munch, dinosaur lunch – Bright & Terry Dinosaurs and all that rubbish – Foreman Dance of the dinosaurs – Hawkins Autumn 2 Experience: The life of Samuel Pepys - Toby and the Great Fire of How can we Mucky Knees – creating Lynch London – Nash & Cope put the fire fires The Great Fire of London - The fire cat – Goodhart & out? Setting fire to their Clements Hurst Tudor houses Collins Big Cat - Plague and Raven Boy: A Tale of the (Great Fire Resources: Fire: Lime/Band 11 (3 Sep 2012) Great Fire of London - of London) Images of the Fire of The Great Fire of London Big Goodhart London Book (How Do We Know Visit from the fire About?) – Fox brigade The Great Fire of London – Fox Magic Grandad A big book – The Great Fire of Film: London The Great Fire of The Great Fire: A City in London (video/media) Flames (National Archives) by Ann Turnbull (12 Sep 2013 Beginning History: The Great Fire Of London - Gogerly Danger Zone: Avoid Being in the Great Fire of London (The Danger Zone) - Pipe & Antram Ways Into History: The Great Fire Of London - Hewitt Historical Stories: Great Fire of London - Atkins The National