Year:  

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

Reception: Core Model Texts for Writing:

This may be a book or set of books.

‘Brown Bear What Do You See?’ Eric Carle

‘Monkey Puzzle’ by Julia Donaldson

‘What I Like About Me!’ By Allia Zobel-Nolan

‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson

A selection of Christmas stories.

‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen.

‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ 

‘Mad About Minibeasts’ by Giles Andrea

‘Jack and the Beanstalk’

‘Little Red Riding Hood’

‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’

‘The Gingerbread man’

‘The Snail and the Whale’ by Julia Donaldson

‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’ by Sarah Roberts

Year 1: Core Texts for

Writing

‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram

‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Wadell

‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak

‘Clean Up!’

Nathan Bryan

‘How to Find a Fruit Bat’ by Michelle Robinson

‘Lights on Cotton Rock’ by David Litchfield

‘The Dragon Machine’ by Helen Ward

Year 2: Core Texts for Writing

‘The Koala Who Could’ by

Rachel Bright

‘Goldilocks and Just The One Bear’

by Leigh Hodgkinson

‘Snowflakes’

‘Vlad & The Great Fire of London’ by Grace Cunningham

Great Fire of London Non-Fiction Books

‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs’ by Jon Scieszka

‘Little people, big dreams Amelia Earhart’ Biographies series

‘Stories from The Billabong’ – multicultural stories from The Outback

Year 3: Core Texts for Writing

‘Escape from Pompeii’ by

Christina Bilat

‘The Green Ship’ by Quentin Blake

Classical Remembrance Poetry

‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura

‘The Stolen Spear’ by

Saviour Pirotta

‘The Magic Paintbrush’ by Julia Donaldson

‘Can we save the tiger?’ (NF) by

Martin Jenkins

‘Luna and the treasure of Tlaloc’ by

Joe Todd-Stanton

‘Fly Eagle Fly’ by

Christopher Gregorowski

Anansi – West Africa and Caribbean traditional tales

Year 4: Core Texts for Writing

‘Just-for-kids Frankenstein’ (illustrated) by Mary Shelley (Author), Margaret Novak

Science-Fiction

‘Alice in Wonderland’ By Lewis Carroll

‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll

‘On the Ning Nag Nong’ by Spike Milligan

Nonsense poetry

A selection of modern and classical Remembrance Poetry

‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C.S Lewis

‘The Tin Forest’ by Helen Ward’ Joe Todd- Stanton

‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’

‘Tales told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia’

Book by Sally Pomme Clayton

Poetry

Year 5: Core Texts for Writing

‘Street Child’ by Berlie Doherty ‘

‘Shackleton’s Journey’ by William Grill

Viking Sagas

BBC Cartoons and playscripts

Poetry- ‘A Caribbean Dozen’ by John Agard and Grace Nicolls

(‘Windrush Child’ John Agard focus)

‘Greek Myths’ by Sally Anne Clayton

Newspaper Reports

Non-Fiction

Year 6: Core Texts for Writing

‘War Game’ by Michael Foreman

‘Varmints’ by Helen Ward

‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell

‘The Viewer’ by Shaun Tan

‘The Last Alchemist’ by Colin Thompson

‘The Promise’ by Nicola Davies

‘The Man who Walked Between 2 Towers’ by Mordicai Gerstein

‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes