English

Phonics and Reading Schemes

At Seaburn Dene Primary School we regard reading as a vital skill for success. With this in mind, we teach reading and writing skills daily from our very youngest children to Year 6. At Key Stage 1, we teach phonics through Read, Write Inc four days a week. Parents can support their children in learning through the Read, Write Inc parent pages. http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents/

Alongside Read, Write Inc the school uses the Oxford Reading Tree as the core scheme for guided, 1:1 and home reading. Beginning at the youngest levels with the adventures of Biff, Chip and Kipper up to the highest with adaptations of classic stories such as "Treasure Island". The scheme incorporates non-fiction too. Why not take a look at the Oxford Owl, a site for parents to support their child enjoy reading activities at home. It has 250 ebooks freely available. For children, who are working at greater depth in our year groups, we have a range of challenging reads - hand picked by expert teachers from our extensive library.

Once the children in year 2 have a solid knowledge of phonics, they move onto our Mastery English curriculum. Our school has helped trial the Mastery English approach, as part of a national pilot - the only school in the North East to do so.

For each year group, the Mastery English curriculum is built around three high quality, whole class texts in which the class spend a whole term exploring and enjoying. The texts are carefully chosen and are typically a classic, a novel linked to their topic and a contemporary children's author. Every single pupil experiences reading and engaging with high quality literature by holding a copy of the book and sharing the teacher's passion for reading. The children read the whole text through individual and shared reading. In addition the children's reading, comprehension, grammar, punctuation and technical writing skills are completely embedded into the whole class teaching approach and taught in the context of the whole class text.

We expect all our children to read every evening and at weekends. Please ensure you sign the reading logs to confirm this reading is taking place.

Year 1

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER 1

SUMMER 2

Reading, Comprehension, Writing

The school uses an intensive phonic scheme “Read, Write Inc”. It is a complete literacy programme taught for an hour a day in Year 1 and above. It is proven to develop:

fluent, enthusiastic readers
deep comprehension of texts
confident speakers
keen writers.

Listening to stories

The class will be introduced to a wide range of books which, as the children progress through the year, will become increasingly complex.

Year 2	AUTUMN 1	AUTUMN 2	SPRING 1	SPRING 2	SUMMER 1	SUMMER 2
Narrative	To write a three part story with a key character	To innovate a tale, changing some aspects of the setting, characters and events	Plan and tell a story, based on your own experience using expanded noun phrases.	To plan and write a story based on a familiar character using the structure of opening, something happens, events to sort out and ending.	To plan and write a story and re-tell a known story using a range of sentence types.	To plan and write your own story with a logical sequence of events, with the introduction of some dialogue.
Non-Fiction	Postcards and letters	Explanations	Instructional Texts	Non-chronological reports	Recounts	Non-chronological reports
Poetry	Songs and repetitive poems	Calligrams	Traditional Poetry	Humorous Poetry	Poems about Senses	Performance Poetry
Mastery Text	The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Jill Tomlinson	The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark - Jill Tomlinson	Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown	Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown	The Great Fire of London	The Great Fire of London
Suggested reading for children: The Paper Bag Princess-Robert N Munsch, Sophie’s Snail- Dick King-Smith, Willy the Wimp-Anthony Browne Alfie and the Big Boys-Shirley Hughes, The Rainbow Fish-Marcus Pfister, Underwater Farmyard-Carol Ann Duffy and Joel Stewart, Mixed up Fairy Tales-Hilary Robinson and Nick Sharrett, Lola books by Lauren Child, The Tiger Who Came to Tea-Judith Kerr, Aliens in Underpants Save the World-Claire Freedman and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl.

YEAR 3

AUTUMN 1

AUTUMN 2

SPRING 1

SPRING 2

SUMMER 1

SUMMER 2

Narrative

Re-tell or write their own story, part of a story.

To write a story in four

parts, with a definite ending and in the first person,

to set the scene and present characters.

.

To write a story in the third person,

organised into paragraphs,

ensuring that the sequence is clear, basic dialogue

is included.

To write a story where dialogue moves the story on.

Write stories that have a

problem

with a cliffhanger ending and organise them into paragraphs that include adverbs of time.

To write a five part story with

a strong dilemma and a resolution, using written dialogue to show the

relationship between characters

Non-fiction

Non -Chronological Report

Discussion Texts

Recounts

Letters

Persuasion

Newspaper Reports

Poetry

Creating Images

Limericks

Nonsense Poetry

Performance Poety

Poems from around the world

Poems to express emotions

Mastery Text

Stig of the Dump- Clive King

There's a Pharoah in a Bath

Jeremy Strong

There's a Pharoah in a Bath

Jeremy Strong

Iron Man-Ted Hughes

Iron Man - Ted Hughes

Suggested reading for children: Meteorite Spoon-Philip Ridley, Angel of Nitshill Road-Anne Fine, Katie Morag Books, Buried Alive-Jacqueline Wilson, The Marble Crusher-Michael Morpurgo, Pippi Longstocking-Astrid Lindgren, Space Race-Malorie Blackman, Letters from an Alien Schoolboy-Ros Asquith, Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty-David Leinthal and John Nickle and Dead Man’s Cove-Lauren St. John

Year 4	AUTUMN 1	AUTUMN 2	SPRING 1	SPRING 2	SUMMER 1	SUMMER 2
Narrative	To plan and write their own version of a familiar story with a focus on varied and rich vocabulary and sentence structures.	To plan complete stories by identifying stages in the telling. Organise paragraphs around a theme, including a description of a setting.	Plan a complete story focusing on organisation devices eg time of day, repetition and adverbial phrases.	To plan and write a longer story including details of setting including language to evoke mood and atmosphere	Write in role as a character from a story, including character descriptions to provoke sympathy or dislike in the reader.	Plan and write a story where the main character faces a dilemma that needs to be resolved.
Non-fiction	Newspaper reports	Chronological reports	Recounts	Biography/ Non-chronological reports.	Persuasion
Poetry	Creating Images	Narrative Poetry	Nonsense Poetry	Performance Poetry	Kennings and List Poetry	Riddles
Mastery Text	Charlotte's Web - E B White	Charlotte's Web - E B White	The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis	The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe - C S Lewis	How To Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell	How To Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell
Suggested reading in Y4: The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling, Stuart Little - E B White, Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame, Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C S Lewis, Dragon Boy - Dick King Smith, Green Smoke - Rosemary Manning, Viking Tales - Terry Deary and The Saga of Erik the Viking - Terry Jones.

Year 5	AUTUMN 1	AUTUMN 2	SPRING 1	SPRING 2	SUMMER 1	SUMMER 2
Narrative	To plan and write a five part story	To plan and write a story showing awareness of audience	To plan and tell story showing a narrative view point.	Write a chaptered story in the style of a particular author.	Plan and write a story in flashback.	Plan and write a story with a clear narrative voice.
Non-fiction	Newspaper Reports	Non Chronological reports	Persuasion	Explanation	Discussion	Recounts
Poetry	Classic Poetry	Cinquain	Power of Imagery	Debate Poetry	Rap	Poems with Different Structures
Mastery Text	The Firework Maker's Daughter - Philip Pullman	The Firework Maker's Daughter - Philip Pullman	Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo	Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo	Holes - Louis Sachar	Holes - Louis Sachar
Suggested reading for children: Krindlekrax-Philip Ridley, The Indian in the Cupboard-Lynne Reid Banks, Artemis Fowl-Eoin Colfer, Coraline-Neil Gaiman, New and Collected Poems for Children-Carol Ann Duffy, Classic Poems for Children-Nicola Baxter, Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief-Rick Riordan, Pandora’s Box-Rose Impey, The Worst Thing About My Sister-Jacqueline Wilson and Saffy’s Angel-Hilary McKay.

Year 6	AUTUMN 1	AUTUMN 2	SPRING 1	SPRING 2	SUMMER 1	SUMMER 2
Narrative	To plan and write a story where dialogue is developed.	Turn a play into a narrative.	Write a short story with atmosphere.	Write a chaptered, non-linear story.	Plan and write a parody.	Plan and write an extended short story.
Non-fiction	Letters	Non-chronological reports	Biography and autobiography	Explanations	Persuasive texts	Discussion
Poetry	Poems by significant authors	Narrative Poetry	Poetic Structure	Poetic Structure	Poetic Structure	Poems about memories
Mastery Text	Goodnight Mister Tom Margaret Margorian	Goodnight Mister Tom Margaret Margorian	The Spiderwick Chronicles - Diterlizzi and Black	The Spiderwick Chronicles - Diterlizzi and Black	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase-Joan Aitken	The Wolves of Willoughby Chase-Joan Aitken
l	Suggested reading for children: Outlaw: The Story of Robin Hood by Michael Morpurgo, Beowulf-Michael Morpurgo, The King Arthur Trilogy-Rosemary Sutcliffe, Collected Poems-Ted Hughes, Jabberwocky-Lewis Carroll, Coram Boy-Jamila Gavin, Ruby Redford Look Into my Eyes-Lauren ChildRingmaster-Julia Golding, Zelah Green Queen of Clean-Vanessa Curtis, Shine-Kate Maryon, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit-Judith Kerr, The Silver Sword-Ian Serraillier and War Horse-Michael Morpurgo

We will be holding our annual Seaburn Dene Primary Spelling Bee on Thursday, March 29 - throughout the day, with each class selecting two children each to compete for their school house.

Children have been given 40 words to practice from their class novels, 20 of which they will be tested on them for house points in the hall, in a celebration of spellings and amazing words. Please see above for your child's list.

Seaburn Dene Spelling Bee 2018