Literacy Medium Term Plan – Summer 2nd Half Term
Range of Text / Phonics, spelling & Vocabulary / Grammar & punctuation / Reading comprehension / Writing comprehension / Speaking & ListeningThe Very Hungry Caterpillar / * Phonics phase 4
Spelling phase 3&4 key words / * Using finger spaces / * Book terms
* Answer questions about the story / * Writing about the holidays
* Write about the lifecycle of a butterfly / * Discuss the life cycle of a butterfly
Caterpillar, Caterpillar
Butterfly / * Phonics phase 4
* Spelling phase 3&4 key words / Track text
* Order left to right / * Predict how the story might end
* Sequence of events
Understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction / * Exciting writing – recount of the school trip
* Use alliteration to describe the foods that caterpillars and other creatures like to eat / * Talk about what caterpillars like to eat
Billy’s Beetle / * Phonics phase 4
Spelling phase 3&4 key words / * Predict words
* Full stops and capital letters / * Match the mini beast labels to the pictures
* Sequence of events / * Exciting writing –dragonfly factfile
* Make up your own story about a creature who is lost / * Tell your friend the story you have made up about a creature who is lost
Honey Bees Busy Day / * Phonics phase 4
Spelling phase 3&4 key words / * Predict words
* Question mark / * Book terms
* Un-muddle a sentence about the story to make sense / * Exciting writing –making honey cakes
* Look at the illustrations and think of a speech/thought bubble for the bee / * Re-tell the story to a friend
Talk about why bees are important
The Snail and the Whale
The Slimy Book / * Phonics phase 4
Spelling phase 3&4 key words / * Pick out the adjectives in the story
* Exclamation marks / * Think of words to describe the creatures in the story
* Discuss the meanings of new words / * Exciting writing - snails
* look at the similes in the book, make up your own simile / *Talk about your favourite part of the story
Play ‘guess what creature I am thinking of’
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly / * Phonics – consolidating Phase 4 and introduce Phase 5 Letters and Sounds
* Practise spelling Phase 4 words / * To use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and for names
To use a full stop at the end of a sentence / * Sequence the events in the story
* Identify words that rhyme / * Writing labels for our class display – where does our food come from? / * Learning the song ‘There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Re-tell the story using the story sack
What the Ladybird Heard Next / * Introduce Phase 5 Letters and Sounds
* Practise spelling Phase 4 words / * Pick out the adjectives in the story / * Identify words that rhyme / * Think of some thought bubbles to show what the ladybird might be thinking at different points in the story / * Talk about the similarities and differences between this story and the original