Author: Smith, Dawn

Year 2	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Reading	From autumn 1 to spring 2, English is taught through the phonics lead Literacy programme ‘Read, Write Inc.’
Poetry to learn and recite	The Elf and the Dormouse / Oliver Herford	The Sleepy Giant / Charles E Carryl	The North Wind / Anonymous	The Secret Place / Dennis Lee	The Owl and the Pussy Cat / Edward Lear	What the Fly Thinks / Gertrude Heath
Grammar and punctuation					Noun / noun phrase / Statement / Question / Command / Exclamation / Compound / Suffix / Adjective / Adverb / Verb / Tense (past and present / Apostrophe / Comma / Use of progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense.	Capital letters / Full stops / Question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences. / Commas to separate items in a list / Apostrophes to mark where letters are missing and to mark singular possessions / Subordination (when, if, that, / Because) and c0-ordination (or, and, but) / Expanded noun phrases for description / Grammatical function of a sentence.
Extended Writing / Outcomes					Story / Real life event / Instructions / Poetry	Story / Real life event / Non-chronological report / Poetry
Quality Texts					Lots: The Diversity of Life on Earth by Nicola Davies / Lila and The Secret of Rain by David Conway / Elephant by Petr Horacek	The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry / The Barnabus Project by Devin Fan, Eric Fan and Terry Fan
Literary Form / genre					Conservation / Conservation / Friendship and imaginary friends	Respect for the natural world and equality / Perfection and failure; freedom; tolerance and acceptance
Themes					Story based non-fiction / Modern folk tale / Contemporary picture book	Picture book / Magical story
Link to Main NC Area of Learning					Science: Plants / Science: Animals	Science: Plants / Science: Animals / Safari