Deykin Avenue JI School English Curriculum: Class Texts
Yr | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Reception | Who’s in the Loo
Rhymes: Incy Wincy Spider | Humpty Dumpty
Rhymes: Jack and Jill
| Pardon Said the Giraffe
Rhymes: Mary had a little Lamb | Monstersaurus
Rhymes: Row, Row, Row your boat | Supermarket Zoo
Rhymes: Old Macdonald | The Bear and the Piano
Rhymes: Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
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Year 1 | Hibernation Hotel by John Kelly
| Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper
Poetry - Scarecrow Christmas by Pie Corbett | Little Red by Bethan Woolvin
Poetry - Monday’s Child by Mother Goose | Prince Cinders by Babette Cole
| Beegu by Alexis Deacon
Poetry – acrostic – The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
| Dogs Don’t Do Ballet by Anna Kemp
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Year 2 | A Squash and A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler
| Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Poetry - Christmas Haiku Pie Corbett | The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt | Dread Cat by Michael Rosen
Poetry - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear | The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas
Poetry - The Sound Collector by Roger McGough
| The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl |
Year 3 | Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
| The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy Poetry - The Twelve Days of Christmas | Jim and The Beanstalk by Raymond Briggs Poetry - Volcano by Joshua Seigal | Flotsam by David Wiesner | Spy Fox – Film Unit
Poetry - From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson | The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. Rauf |
Year 4 | George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Poetry - Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf by Roald Dahl | The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan
| Arthur and The Golden Rope by Joe Todd-Stanton
| A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Poetry – The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
| My Name Is Not Refugee by Kate Milner | The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Poetry - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll |
Year 5 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
| Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Poetry - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti
| Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo | Matilda by Roald Dahl
Poetry - Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
| The Tempest by William Shakespeare | The Ways of the Wolf by Smriti Prasadam-Halls & Jonathan Woodward
Poetry - The Tyger by William Blake
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Year 6 | The Island by Armin Greder
| The Boy In The Tower by Polly Ho-Yen
Poetry – 'Twas The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore | The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
| The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
| Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Poetry - Life Doesn’t Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
| A range of writing based on the the concept of 'anywhere island'. The children will create their own island and take part in a variety of writing tasks.
Poetry - My Generation by Jordan Nichols |