The Gattons Infant School
Progression in Literacy
Reception | I wonder what makes me special | I wonder what we celebrate | I wonder what happened once upon a time | I wonder what happens in the great outdoors | I wonder what’s so amazing about animals | I wonder what moves |
EYFS Writing | Writing own name Writing a friend’s name “I am (name) I am (age)” CVC words
| Stanleys Stick My stick is a ----- CVC words to label pictures Christmas list Letter to Santa | Label a gingerbread man Captions about fairy tale characters “ she has long hair” Sentence about an animal from The Runaway Chapatti “ The crocodile is green and long”
| Mr Wolfs Pancakes sentences “ Mr Wolf has sharp teeth” Label a plant - long root green shoot little leaves Captions to accompany obs drawing of plant Errols Garden | Mobile farm – At the farm there was a pink pig” Poster for a dog “She is lost” Taking care of a fish – My Pet Goldfish Lulu has a cat Butterfly life cycle | Bus/train fact file Naughty Bus retell
Amberley Museum Recount Letter to Year 1 |
| Class Literature | Fiction - Hello Friend Poetry - Great Big Cuddle, Poetry Basket | Fiction - Stanley's Stick, The Jolly Christmas Postman Poetry - Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes, Poetry Basket Non-Fiction - Best Diwali | Fiction - The Gingerbread Man The Runaway Chapati Poetry - Poetry Basket | Fiction - Errol's Garden, Jaspers Beanstalk Poetry - Out and About Shirley Hughes, Poetry Basket Non-Fiction - Yucky Worms, My Map Book | Fiction - The Hungry Caterpillar, My Pet Goldfish, Our Very Own Dog Poetry - Poetry Basket, Caterpillar Cake Non-Fiction - Emperor's Egg, World Atlas, I won't eat that | Fiction - The Naughty Bus, The Train Ride, I like Trains Poetry - Poetry Basket, Here's a Little Poem Non-Fiction - Usborne How a __ works |
Phonics | Phase 1 s a t p i n m d g o c k ck e u r h b f ff l ll ss | j v w x y z zz qu sh ch th ng ai ee igh oa es (Where there is no change to the root word) Revision | oo oo ar or ur ir ow oi nk air ear ure, er, ow Revision | Review weeks. | CVC words ed CVCC and CCVC words CCVCC CCCVC and CCCVCC words | Ay, ou, ie, ea, le, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe, au, ey, a_e, e_e, i_e, o-E, u_e, c (s) |
| Handwriting | s a t p i n m d g o c k e u r h b f l | j v w x y z capital letters The curly caterpillar family of letters The one armed robot family of letters | The long ladder family of letters The zig zag monster family of letters Capital letter families Tall small and tail letters Position on the line | |||
Common Exception Words | Read: I, the, no, put, of, is, to , go, into, pull, as, his, he, she, buses, we, me, be, push, was, her, my, you.
| Read: they, all, are, ball, tall, when, what, said, so, have, were, out, like, some, come, there, little, one, do, children, love. Spelling: a I no the to go into he she we me be you are her was all they my do | Read: oh, their, people, Mrs, Mr, your, ask, should, would, could, asked, house, mouse, water, want, very
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Year 1 | Autumn 1 Bog Baby | Autumn 2 Fire! Fire! | Spring 1 Reach for the stars | Spring 2 Far, Far Away | Summer 1 SOS | |
| Writing | Fiction No Difference between us Bog Baby We are all welcome | Non-Fiction Fire! Fire! Poetry | Fiction - Look up
Non-Fiction - Space books, Moon Landing | Fiction - Jack and the Beanstalk Non-fiction - Plants and growing | Fiction - Dougal's deep sea diary Poetry | |
| Class Literature | Fiction Labels, write a simple sentence, captions
Non fiction Lists Instructions | Non fiction Facts in a sentence Poetry What's in my box? | Non-fiction Recount Answering questions Fiction Look up learning space facts and empathising with characters. | Fiction Description Story Writing | Fiction Story writing, diary writing Non fiction fact posters Poetry Riddles | |
Phonics | ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, wh, ph, ew, oe Review | Au, ey, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, c,y, al (walk0 Review | a (acorn), ey (they), ea (great0, eigh (eight), a (father), e (he), I (find), y (by), o (go), o (was), oo (push) y+oo (music,) ch (school) ch (chef) ea (head), or (world) ear (learn) ou (soup) oul (shoulder) ie (brief) v (have) y (gym), are (care) ere (there) ear (pear) tch (catch) | g (gem), ge (fringe), dge (bridge), st (listen), ce (fence), se (house), gn (sign), kn (knee), wr (wrap), mb (lamb), ze (cheese), ze (freeze), eer (cheer), ere (here), ti (patient) /sh/ –tion (station), al (half) augh (caught), ss (session), si (vision), ti (scrumptious), ci (delicious) | Review all previously taught GPCs for reading and spelling, and teach further rarely-used GPCs | |
| Common Exception Words | Read: I, the, no, put, of, is, to , go, into, pull, as, his, he, she, buses, we, me, be, push, was, her, my, you. | Read: they, all, are, ball, tall, when, what, said, so, have, were, out, like, some, come, there, little, one, do, children, love. Spelling: a I no the to go into he she we me be you are her was all they my do | Read: oh, their, people, Mrs, Mr, your, ask, should, would, could, asked, house, mouse, water, want, very Spelling: a I no the to go into he she we me be you are her was all they my do | |||
| Reading | Please, once, any, many, who, whole, where, two | here, sugar, friend, because | ||||
Handwriting | Revisit the curly caterpillar family of letters Revisit the one-armed robot family of letters | Revisit the long ladder family of letters Revisit the zigzag monster family of letters | Revisit capital letter formation | Bottom joins ai ar au aw ay ch | Bottom joins ck er ew ff ir kn | Bottom joins ll qu sh th ur
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Year 2 | Autumn 1 Fanfares and Fairy Tales – Castle Life
| Autumn 2 Fanfares and Fairy Tales – Fairy Tales
| Spring 1 Pole to Pole Non-fiction Polar animals | Spring 2 Pole to Pole Fiction – Brave and the Fox Shackleton’s Journey | Summer 1 Up on the Downs
A book by a local author. | Summer 2 Up on the Downs
Learning about our local area. |
Writing | Non-Fiction Non-fiction texts about castles. Poetry Dragon poems by Kirky Paul Tell Me a Dragon by Jackie Morris | Fiction Rapunzel by Chloe Perkins Rapunzel - Bethan Woolvin Ghanian Goldilocks (3 weeks) Linked to Guided Reading. Billy Goats Gruff by Jon Kassen | Non Fiction Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins Polar Animals by Paul Hess | Fiction Brave and the Fox by Nicola Davis
Non- Fiction Earnest Shackleton – Little People Big Dreams Shackleton’s Journey By William Grill | Fiction The Jam Sandwich by Janet Burroway and John Vernon Lord The Disgusting Sandwich by Gareth Edwards. Non-Fiction Recipes | Poetry Chosen from A First Poetry Book (Macmillan Poetry)
Fiction Grace and Family by Mary Hoffman
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Class Literature | Non-Fiction Writing an informative leaflet to put in Lewes Castle
Poetry Write a descriptive poem using expanded noun phrases. | Fiction Write Rapunzel story using features of a fairy tale.
Write their own fairy tale with 3 main characters and one baddie. | Non-Fiction Writing a fact book about polar animals. Using the feature of non-fiction texts. Asking and answering questions. | Fiction Narrative story writing. Non-Fiction Recount – Shackleton's race to the South Pole | Fiction Story writing Non-Fiction Instruction writing. Following and writing recipes. | Poetry Participate in a performance give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings. Non-Fiction Letter writing to their new junior school to describe themselves and their interests. |
Handwriting | Bottom to c shaped joins as ea ed ng ss ig in sq | Bottom to e joins ae be de ee fe | Bottom to e joins ge ie pe se ue | Top e joins oe re ve we re, re | Top joins oa oo oh oi on op | Top joins or ou ov ow oy wh |
Phonics | a (acorn), ey (they), ea (great0, eigh (eight), a (father), e (he), I (find), y (by), o (go), o (was), oo (push) y+oo (music,) ch (school) ch (chef) ea (head), or (world) ear (learn) ou (soup) oul (shoulder) ie (brief) v (have) y (gym), are (care) ere (there) ear (pear) tch (catch) | g (gem), ge (fringe), dge (bridge), st (listen), ce (fence), se (house), gn (sign), kn (knee), wr (wrap), mb (lamb), ze (cheese), ze (freeze), eer (cheer), ere (here), ti (patient) /sh/ –tion (station), al (half) augh (caught), ss (session), si (vision), ti (scrumptious), ci (delicious) | Revise and revusut any of these phonemes specific to the class. |
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Spelling
Ongoing learning to spell common exception words | segmenting spoken words into phonemes and representing these by graphemes, spelling many correctly
learning to spell more words with contracted forms
| * learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling
learning the possessive apostrophe (singular) [for example, the girl’s book]
add suffixes to spell longer words, including ––ful, –less, –ly, er, est
| distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones
learning new ways of spelling phonemes for which one or more spellings are already known, and learn some words with each spelling, including a few common homophones add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly | distinguishing between homophones and near-homophones | add suffixes to spell longer words, including –ment, –ness, –ful, –less, –ly | Ongoing learning to spell common exception words |
Grammar and punctuation | sentences with different forms: statement, question,
learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including full stops, capital letters, question marks
commas for lists
apostrophes for contracted forms
the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form | sentences with different forms: statement, question, exclamation, command learning how to use both familiar and new punctuation correctly including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks.
apostrophes for the possessive (singular)
expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly] | apostrophes for contracted forms
apostrophes for the possessive (singular)
| expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]
the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form | expanded noun phrases to describe and specify [for example, the blue butterfly]
the present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form
commas for lists
| sentences with different forms: statement, question,
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