English
Curriculum Plan for English EYFS
Term/topic/key driver |
Autumn 1 All about Me Citizenship
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Autumn 2 How are you feeling? Mental Health
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Spring 1 Hot and cold places Cultural Diversity
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Spring 2 Neighbours and community Citizenship
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Summer 1 Fairy-tale characters Mental Health
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Summer 2 Water Cultural Diversity
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Key texts |
My Cat likes to hide in boxes. Eve Sutton
Happy Birthday Maisie Lucy Cousins
Monkey Puzzle Julia Donaldson
I will not ever never eat a tomato Lauren Child
My Grannies June Crebbin
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Aaarrrgh Spider Lydia Monks
Owl Babies By Martin Waddell
Can’t you sleep little bear Martin Wadell
The elves and the shoemaker
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The Usborne Book of Planet Earth
Welcome to the Arctic/desert/ Rainforest - Living Things and Their Habitats
Lost and found Oliver Jeffers
Handa’s Hen Eileen Browne
Elmer David McKee
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The Enormous Water Melon
Stone soup
The smartest giant in town Julia Donaldson
Jonathon Jo
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Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere
The wizard said Richard Edwards
A Royal Hullaballu - Mick Inkpen
Rumplestiltskin
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‘Voices of Water’ by Tony Mitton
All Wet Tony Johnson
Welcome to the Coral Reef - Living Things and Their Habitats
Billy’s Bucket Kes Gray
Splash Anna Hibiscus-Atinuke |
Literary Form |
Picture book with repetitive phrase
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Picturebook with poetic language
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Non – fiction
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Traditional Tale
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Contemporary fiction
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Poetry |
Supportive Texts |
I am absolutely too small for school Lauren Child
Green Eggs and Ham Dr Seuss
Kipper’s Birthday Mick Inkpen
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We’re going on a Bear Hunt
10 minutes till bedtime Peggy Rathmann
10 out of bed Penny Dale
Boo to the who in the dark
Elf on the shelf
Postman Mouse
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Christmas Eve EricCarle
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We’re going on a polar bear hunt
Giraffes can’t dance Giles Andreae
A country far away Nigel Gray
Greedy Zebra Mwenye Hadithi
Little owl in the snow Christine Tagg Snow bears Martin Waddell
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Alfie gets in first Shirley Hughes
The tiger who came tea Judith Kerr
Oliver’s Vegetables Vivian French
Astro Girl Ken Wilson-Max
Errol’s Garden Gillian Hibbs
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The Princess and the pea.
Charlie Cook’s favourite book Julia Donaldson
Princess Smartypants Babette Cole
King and King Linda de Hann |
Jabari Jumps Gaia Cornwall
Mr Gumpy’s Outing John Burmningham
Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister
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Link to theme |
PSED: HC&SA Awarenes of self, likes dislikes, family members. PSED: MR & MFB Making friends, feeling secure. Learning to share. H&SC: Healthy eating UW: P&C Awareness of own family routines.
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PSED: Talking about our worries. Keeping ourselves safe. |
UW: The World Animals and their environments. NUM: counting, one more. |
UW: P&C Who helps us in our community. UW: The World Growing and planting. |
EAD: Imaginary worlds |
EAD: Poetry, music and dance |
Phonics and Early Reading |
Soundscaping with untuned instruments and voice sounds. Teaching the Basic Code in context. Developing fluency through repetitive refrain. Lifting meaning through performance reading. Reading illustration
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Rhythm and rhyme Alliteration and assonance. Teaching the Basic Code in context. Lifting meaning through performance reading. Developing inference. Reading illustration. Reading own writing |
Alliteration using names. Related songs about animals and their environments. Words as tags – matching text and illustration Reading own writing. |
Environmental sound discrimination Teaching the Basic Code in context Developing fluency through repetitive refrain Developing inference Reading illustration |
Voice sounds – emotional expression Teaching the Basic Code in context. Developing fluency through high frequency words. Developing inference. Reading illustration Reading own writing
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Rhythm, rhyme, body percussion and voice sounds. Word and language play Matching aural patterns like rhyming pairs to visual patterns by onset and rime. Neo-language – reading pseudo words in context. Performance reading. Reading own poetry |
Specific phonics |
Cloud books pure sound Ss, Aa, Tt , Pp, Ii, Nn, Mm, Dd,
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Gg, Oo, Cc, Kk, ck ,Ee, Uu ,Rr, Hh, Bb, Ff, ff
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Ll, ll, le, ss, Jj, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Qu, |
ch, sh, th, ng, dge, ve, wh, cks, tch, nk, ai,ee |
igh, oa, oo (as in cook), oo (as in spoon), ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear |
air, er (as in hammer), er (as in letter), ue (as in rescue), ue (as in glue), ure, ture
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EYFS C&L |
Listening attentively in a range of situations; to stories, accurately anticipating key events and responding to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions; giving their attention to what others say and responding appropriately, while engaged in another activity. Answering ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events. Expressing themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs; using past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
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Language competency |
Strong narrative voice addressing the reader Past and present tense, including progressive Adverbial phrases Subordinate and co-ordinating clauses Visual patterns in words Plural suffixes |
Poetic voice and language Present tense, including progressive Expanded noun phrases Language related to size and comparison Apostrophe for possession |
Voice and tunes of narrative, information and song Book talk and reader response Descriptive, comparative and technical language Precise language of movement – verbs and adverbials Plural suffixes |
Traditional tale voice Repetitive refrains Sequencing sentences in retelling Conjunctions and fronted adverbial Dialogue Comparative language Persuasive voice Visualising Exclamations |
Simple narrative voice Past tense consistency and conjunctions in telling personal stories Word collections: exploring colloquial language of families, synonyms Language related to size and comparison Apostrophe for possession |
Expressive and figurative language Neo-language Language and word play Expanded noun phrases Investigating spelling patterns Visualising Reader response |
Physical Development
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Write dance. Loose parts
Gross Motor -moving bodies like the cats in response to story telling. Fine motor chopping fruit, Spreading butter. Playdough cakes to decorate.
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Write dance. Loose parts
Gross Motor - active play acting out the story. Fine motor – playdough spiders/ torch writing. Hammer and nails. Peg Christmas trees construct then decorate.
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Write dance. Loose parts
Gross Motor active play - polar bear hunt in arctic. Dressing in arctic explorer clothes. Fine motor Desert /arctic jeep/snowmobile pens Cotton wool snowmen posting bottles |
Write dance. Loose parts
Gross Motor – re-enacting hunt for Handa’s hen. Fine motor Pegging correct number of pegs on numbered eggs.
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Write dance. Loose parts
Gross Motor making monster traps. Re-enacting journey. Fine motor - dough monsters Unicorn horn loom bands |
Write dance. Loose parts Gross Motor – Fishing with nets. Water fun. Big building boats. Fine motor Bath mats and pipettes. |
Extended writing outcome |
Personal narrative
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Instructions to baby owls, how to stay safe / baby bear on going to sleep without worrying. |
information booklet |
Retelling the story in role |
Alternative monster story |
Poetry in a range of forms |