Medium Term Plan – Rec/Y1 Autumn YEAR A

We will provide a two year rolling programme plus extra plans to add different texts and topics. This means that next year there will be a completely new raft of plans for the Rec/Y1 teacher to draw upon so that no child in either year will need to repeat a plan!

Term / Fiction / Non-fiction / Poetry
Autumn / Plan 1A: Stories with repeating patterns
Required texts:
Little Rabbit Foo Foo and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
by M Rosen
Bears in the Night byStan and Jan Berenstain
Handa’s Surprise by E Browne
Description:
Children explore and enjoy the patterns and repeated phrases in Bears in the Night, Handa’s Surprise and Little Rabbit Foo Foo, using these tales as stimuli for performances, as aids to reading and as models for their own carefully punctuated writing.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use capital letters for the names of people, places, days of the week, etc. / Plan 1A: Labels, lists, signs & posters
Required texts:
Knock Knock Who’s There? By S Grindley and A Browne,
Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly by S Heap and N Sharratt
Description:
Using Knock Knock Who’s There by Anthony Browne and Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly by Nick Sharratt chn learn how to write signs, labels, captions and lists. They understand how to use extended noun phrases and the effect exclamation marks produce.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Begin to punctuate sentences when writing captions.
2. Begin to use exclamation marks in writing
3. Use capital letters for the names of people, places, days of the week, etc.
4. Use adjectives to create extended noun phrases. / Plan 1A: Nursery rhymes and traditional rhymes
Required texts:
Read Me First, Poems for Younger Readers
A variety of poems provided
Description:
Children listen to and read a series of poems from Read Me First and elsewhere. They learn how to recite poems with expression and then have opportunities to create rhymes of their own and use poems they have heard as models for their own writing.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use capital letters for the beginnings of lines of poetry
3. Use exclamation marks and question marks at the end of a sentence.
4. Use ‘because’ in simple explanations.
Plan 2A: Stories in familiar settings
Required texts:
Mog the Forgetful Cat by J Kerr
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by J Kerr
Other Mog books will be useful.
Cat, Fish and Shell – Hamilton Group Readers
Description:
Using Judith Kerr’s well-loved Mog the Forgetful Cat and The Tiger Who Came to Tea, chn relate these stories to their own experience. They imagine alternative scrapes for Mog, design a perfect pet and present medals for kindness and bravery. They then write a story closely based on the second book.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Write, leaving spaces between words
2. Use a capital letter for the beginning of a name.
2. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop. / Plan 2A: Information texts
Required texts:
Baa! Moo! What will we do? by R. H. Benjamin and J. Chapman
First Facts Farm by P. Arlon,
Description:
Through the exciting theme of farms and using Baa! Moo! What will we do? and First Farm Facts, chn learn the textual features of a non-fiction book. They research facts, make notes and work in small teams. They create their own page for a group non-fiction book, which includes all the relevant features.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, a question or exclamation mark.
2. Join two simple sentences using ‘and’.
3. Use ‘because’ in simple explanations. / Plan 2A: Pattern and rhyme in poetry
Required texts:
Poems for the Very Youngby M Rosen
A selection of poems provided
Description:
A selection of fun poems are used to explore repetition and rhyme. Children perform poetry as well as compose their own. They begin to write sentences and understand poetry punctuation. Poems for the Very Young (Rosen) is useful but not essential.
Grammar focus for Year 1:
1. Use capital letters for the beginnings of lines of poetry.
2. Begin to punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop.