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Y2
Summer Term
Text Level
Narrative
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Plan 5A: Quest and adventure stories
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Plan 6A: Stories by the same author:
Anthony Browne
Sentence
Structures
Consolidate
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Simple sentences
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Embellished simple sentences using adjectives
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Simple Connectives: and, who, until, but
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Run’ - Repetition for rhythm
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Repetition for description
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Simple Connectives: because, so that, then,
that, while, when, where
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Types of sentences:
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Statements
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Questions
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Exclamations
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Commands
Non-Fiction
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Plan 5A Information texts
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Plan 6A: Recounts
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Openers
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Consolidate
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-‘ly’ openers
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Luckily / Unfortunately,
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Also as openers: While…
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ly’ starters
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Secure use of compound sentences
(Coordination) using connectives:
and/ or / but / so (coordinating
conjunctions)
Complex sentences (Subordination) using:
Drop in a relative clause:
who/which
Additional subordinating conjunctions:
what/while/when/where/ because/ then/so
that/ if/to/until
Introduce
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Vary openers to sentences
Poetry
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Plan 5A: Favourite poems
Plan 6A: Really looking! Poems about
birds
Introduce
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Use long and short sentences:
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Long sentences to add description or
information. Use short sentences for
emphasis.
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Word Level
Consolidate
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Prepositions: inside, outside, towards, across,
under,
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Alliteration
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Determiners:
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the a my your an this that his her their
some all lots of many more those these
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Adjectives to describe
Punctuation
Consolidate
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Capital letter for names
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Capital letter for the personal pronoun I
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Exclamation marks
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Dialogue – Use of speech bubbles.
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Bullet Points
Spelling and
Handwriting
Spelling
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Please refer to the spelling appendix for the
full range of phonics to cover. Follow the
sequence noted in the Letters and Sounds.
Adding the prefix un
Adding the prefixes tin and dis
Tricky consonants 1 ph. and ch.
Tricky consonants 2 kn, wr, mb
Soft c where c makes a 's' sound
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Similes using as….as… / like
Regular plural noun suffixes –s or –es
Suffixes that can be added to verbs
Expanded noun phrases
Embellished simple sentences using: adjectives,
adverbs
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Demarcate sentences: Capital letters,
Full stops, Question marks, Exclamation marks
Comma after –ly opener
Commas to separate items in a list
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Topic words 2 - days of the week
Two-syllable words
Word sending 'shun' and 'ul'
Taking words apart
Shortened forms
Revision 3 new graphemes and endings
Tricky words
Introduce
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List of 3 for description
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e.g. He wore old shoes, a dark cloak and a red
hat.
African elephants have long trunks, curly tusks and large
ears
Introduce
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speech marks for direct speech
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Apostrophes to mark contracted forms in
spelling
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e.g. don’t, can’t
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Apostrophes to mark singular possession
e.g. the cat’s name
Handwriting
 Pupils should be taught to:
 form lower-case letters of the correct size relative to
one another
 start using some of the diagonal and horizontal
strokes needed to join letters
 write capital letters and digits of the correct size,
orientation and relationship to one another and to
lower case letters
 use spacing between words that reflects the size of
the letters.
 The children should begin to join their handwriting
in the Lantern cursive style.
Terminology
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Consolidate
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Punctuation
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Finger spaces
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Letter
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Word
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Sentence
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Full stops
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Capital letter
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Question mark
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Exclamation mark
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Speech bubble
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Bullet points
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Singular/ plural
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Adjective
Connective
Alliteration
Simile – ‘as’/ ‘like’
Statement
question
exclamation
Noun phrases
Generalisers
Command (Bossy verbs)
Suffix
Verb / adverb
Tense (past, present, future) ie not in bold
Adjective / noun
Introduce
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Apostrophe (contractions and singular
possession)
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Commas
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‘Speech marks’
Apostrophe for contraction