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Year 1
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Fiction:
Stories with familiar settings. Stories and rhymes with predictable and
repetitive patterns.
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Fiction:
Traditional stories and rhymes. Fairy stories. Stories and poems with
familiar, predictable and patterned language from a rage of cultures,
including playground chants, action verses and rhymes. Plays.
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Fiction:
Stories about fantasy worlds. Poems with patterned and predictable
structures. A variety of poems on similar themes.
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Non-Fiction:
Signs, labels, captions, lists, instructions
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Non-Fiction:
Information texts, including non-chronological reports. Simple
dictionaries. |
Non-Fiction:
Information texts including recounts of observations, visits, events.
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Year 2
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Fiction:
Stories and a variety of poems with familiar settings.
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Fiction:
Traditional stories; stories and poems from other cultures. Stories and
poems with predictable and patterned language. Poems by significant
children's poets. |
Fiction:
Extended stories. Stories by significant children's authors. Different
stories by the same author; texts with language play, e.g. riddles,
tongue-twisters, humorous verse and stories.
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Year 3
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Fiction:
Stories with familiar settings. Plays. Poems based on observation and
the senses. Shape poems.
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Fiction:
Myths, legends, fables, parables. Traditional stories, stories with
related themes. Oral and performance poetry from different cultures. |
Fiction:
Adventure and mystery stories. Stories by the same author. Humorous
poetry and poetry that plays with language, word puzzles, puns, riddles.
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Non-Fiction:
Information texts on topics of interest. Non-chronological reports.
Thesauruses, dictionaries.
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Non-Fiction:
Instructions. Dictionaries without illustrations, thesauruses.
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Non-Fiction:
Adventure and mystery stories. Stories by the same author. Humorous
poetry and poetry that plays with language, word puzzles, puns, riddles.
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Year 4
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Fiction:
Historical stories and short novels. Play scripts. Poems based on common
themes, e.g. space, school, animals, families, feelings, viewpoints.
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Fiction:
Stories/novels about imagined worlds: sci-fi, fantasy adventures.
Stories in series. Classic and modern poetry including poems from
different cultures and times.
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Fiction:
Stories/short novels, etc. that raise issues, e.g. bullying,
bereavement, injustice. Stories by the same author. Stories from other
cultures. Range of poetry indifferent forms, e.g. haiku, cinquain,
couplets, lists, thin poems, alphabets, conversations, monologues,
syllabics, prayers, epitaphs, songs, rhyming forms and free verse.
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Non-Fiction:
A range of text-types from reports and articles in newspapers and
magazines. Instructions.
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Non-Fiction:
Information texts on same or similar themes. Explanations.
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Non-Fiction:
Persuasive writing: adverts, circulars, flyers. Discussion texts:
debates, editorials. Information texts linked to other curricular areas.
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Year 5
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Fiction:
Novels, stories and poems by significant children's writers.
Play-scripts. Concrete poetry.
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Fiction:
Traditional stories, myths, legends, gables from a range of cultures.
Longer classic poetry, including narrative poetry. |
Fiction:
Novels, stories and poems from a variety of cultures and traditions.
Choral and performance poetry.
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Non-Fiction:
Recounts of events, activities, visits; observational records, news
reports. Instructional texts: rules, recipes, directions, instructions,
showing how things are done.
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Non-Fiction:
Non-chronological reports (i.e. to describe and classify). Explanations
(processes, systems, operations, etc.). Use content from other subjects,
e.g. how the digestive system works, how to find a percentage, the rain
cycle.
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Non-Fiction:
Persuasive writing to put or argue a point of view: letters,
commentaries, leaflets to persuade, criticise, protest, support, object,
complain. Dictionaries, thesauruses, including I.T. sources.
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Year 6
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Fiction:
Classic fiction, poetry and drama by long-established authors including
where appropriate, study of a Shakespeare play. Adaptations of classics
on film/TV.
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Fiction:
Longer established stories and novels selected from more than one genre,
e.g. mystery, humour, sci-fi., historical, fantasy worlds. Range of
poetic forms, e.g. kennings, limericks, riddles, cinquain, tanka, poems
written in other forms (as adverts, letter, diary entries,
conversations), free verse, nonsense verse. |
Fiction:
Comparison of work by significant children's author(s) and poets: (a) by
same author (b) different authors' treatment of same theme(s).
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Non-Fiction:
Autobiography and biography, diaries, journals, letters, anecdotes,
records of observations etc. which recount experiences and events.
Journalistic writing. Non-chronological reports. |
Non-Fiction:
Discussion texts. Formal writing: notices, public information documents
etc.
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Non-Fiction:
Explanations linked to work from other subjects. Non-chronological
reports linked to work from other subjects. Use of reference texts,
range of dictionaries, thesauruses, including I.T. sources.
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