Y2 English Overview 2016/17

Autumn Term 1

Wk / Date / English Focus / Grammar Focus / Texts / Wider Reading
1 / 5/9/16 / Basic Skills / Basic Skills
Nelson – Unit 2 ‘adjectives’
2 / 12/9/16 / Unit 1 Reading Fiction
Picture books
Stories with familiar settings / RWI – capital letters (3)
Nelson – Unit 6 ‘sentences’ / Cottonwool Colin by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross (picture book)
Sister for Sale by Adrian Bradbury (story with a familiar setting) / Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Willy the Wimp by Anthony Browne
Alfie and the Big Boys by Shirley Hughes
The Works – Every Kind of Poem You Will Ever Need at School by Paul Cookson (see ‘New School’ by Kevin McCann, ‘Younger Brother’ by Trevor Millum and ‘My Brother’ by Ted Hughes
3 / 19/9/16 / Unit 1 Writing Fiction
Picture books
Stories with familiar settings / RWI – -ful and -ness suffixes (8)
Nelson – Unit 28 ‘adjectives formed with suffixes’
4 / 26/9/16 / Unit 1 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Explanation texts / Nelson – Unit 22 ‘past tense progressive’ / Parents and their Young
5 / 3/10/16 / Text Type leading to extended writing – Newspaper / Nelson – Unit 10 ‘verbs – past simple’
6 / 10/10/16 / Nelson – Unit 9 ‘adverbs’ / Laughing Time by William Jay Smith
Fruit Picking by Jack Ousbey
7 / 17/10/16 / Poetry by Heart
Progress Tests – SPaG and Reading Gap Teaching

Autumn Term 2

Wk / Date / English Focus / Grammar Focus / Texts / Wider Reading
1 / 31/10/16 / Unit 2 Reading Fiction
Picture books
Poetry / Nelson – Unit 16 ‘adjectives - comparatives’
Nelson – Unit 20 ‘adjectives - superlatives / The Fish Who Could Wish by John Bush and Korky Paul (picture book)
Tiger by Usha Kishore (poetry)
River by June Crebbin (poetry)
Don’t Call Alligator Long-Mouth Till You Cross River by John Agard (poetry) / Underwater Farmyard by Carol Ann Duffy and Joel Stewart
Moon Zoo by Carol Ann Duffy and Joel Stewart
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Tiddler: The Story-Telling Fish by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry by Joyce Sidman
2 / 7/11/16 / Unit 2 Writing Fiction
Picture books
Poetry / RWI – commas in lists (6)
Nelson – Unit 15 ‘commas’
3 / 14/11/16 / Unit 2 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Non-chronological texts / RWI – ing suffix (13)
RWI - -er, -est suffixes (14)
Nelson – Unit 27 ‘nouns formed with suffixes’ / Journey to the Deep
4 / 21/11/16 / Text Type leading to extended writing – Adventure story / Nelson – Unit 11 ‘nouns’
5 / 28/11/16 / Nelson – Unit 13 ‘pronouns’
6 / 5/12/16 / Poetry by Heart
Progress Tests – SPaG and Reading / Surrounded by Noise! By Jan Souter
Billy Dreamer’s Fantastic Friends by Brian Patten
7 / 12/12/16 / Gap Teaching

Spring Term 1

Wk / Date / English Focus / Grammar Focus / Texts / Wider Reading
1 / 3/1/17
(4 days) / Unit 3 Reading Fiction
Picture books
Playscripts / RWI – exclamations and commands (3)
Nelson – Unit 12 ‘sentences’ / Little Croc’s Purse by Lizzie Finlay (picture book)
Oh Gnome! By Lou Kuenzler (playscript) / Aesop: The Compleet Fables by Aesop (see ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’)
The Lying Carpet by David Lucas
The Huge Bag of Worries by Virginia Ironside
Angry Arthur by Hiawyn Oram and Satoshi Kitamura
Something Else by Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell
2 / 9/1/17 / Unit 3 Writing Fiction
Picture books
Playscripts / Nelson – Unit 14 ‘contractions’
3 / 16/1/17 / Unit 3 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Persuasive Writing / RWI – adjectives and nouns (12)
Nelson - Unit 1 ‘nouns and adjectives’ / The Super Car Boot
Toy Sale!
Gnome, Sweet Gnome!
4 / 23/1/17 / Text Type leading to extended writing – Diary / Nelson – Unit 17 ‘nouns’
5 / 30/1/17 / Nelson – Unit 18 ‘contractions’
6 / 6/2/17 / Poetry by Heart / Nelson – Unit 5 ‘nouns’ / Little Rabbit Foo Foo (Traditional)
Daddy Fell into the Pond by Alfred Noyes
7 / 13/2/17 / Progress Tests – SPaG and Reading
Gap Teaching

Spring Term 2

Wk / Date / English Focus / Grammar Focus / Texts / Wider Reading
1 / 27/2/17 / Unit 4 Reading Fiction
Picture books
Traditional tales / RWI – coordinating conjunctions (4)
Nelson – Unit 8 ‘conjunctions’ / Billy Monster’s Daymare by Alan Durant and Ross Collins (picture book)
Beauty and the Breast by Gill Howell (traditional tale) / Little Beauty by Anthony Browne
The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit by Chris Wormell
The Works 4 by Pie Corbett and Gaby Morgan (see ‘My Sister’s a Monster’ by Gillian Floyd)
Beauty and the Beast by Michael Morpurgo and Loretta Schauer
Mixed Up Fairy Tales by Hilary Robinson and Nick Sharratt
2 / 6/3/17 / Unit 4 Writing Fiction
Picture books
Traditional tales / Nelson – Unit 3 ‘nouns’
3 / 13/3/17 / Unit 4 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Instruction texts / RWI – adverbs (12 and 13)
Nelson – Unit 21 ‘adverbs’ / How to Turn a Class Hamster into a Dinosaur
4 / 20/3/17 / Text Type leading to extended writing – Letter / Nelson – Unit 25 ‘conjunctions’
5 / 27/3/17
6 / 3/4/17 / Progress Tests – SPaG and Reading
Gap Teaching

Summer Term 1

Wk / Date / English Focus / Grammar Focus / Texts / Wider Reading
1 / 24/4/17 / Unit 5 Reading Fiction
Picture books
Stories with familiar settings / Nelson – Unit 24 ‘confusing words’ / The Night Shimmy by Gwen Strauss and Anthony Browne (picture book)
Chatterbox Ben by Adrian Bradbury (story with a familiar setting) / Slightly Invisible by Lauren Child (or any other Lola books that feature Soren Lorenson, Lola’s invisible friend)
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Not Now Bernard by David McKee
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
2 / 1/5/17
(4 days) / Unit 5 Writing Fiction
Picture books
Stories with familiar settings / RWI – subordinating conjunctions (6)
Nelson – Unit 23 ‘conjunctions’
3 / 8/5/17 / Unit 5 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Communication texts / RWI – apostrophes for contractions (15)
Nelson - Unit 7 ‘contractions’ / Thrill City – Email and Letter
4 / 15/5/17 / Text Type leading to extended writing – Riddles / Nelson – Unit 26 ‘adverbs’
5 / 22/5/17

Summer Term 2

Wk / Date / English Focus / Grammar Focus / Texts / Wider Reading
1 / 8/6/17
(2 days) / Progress Tests
Reading and SPaG / RWI – verb tenses (5)
Nelson – Unit 4 ‘verbs – present progressive’
2 / 12/6/17 / Unit 6 Reading Fiction
Picture books
Stories set in fantasy worlds / RWI – tenses in texts (8)
Nelson – Unit 19 ‘verbs – past progressive’ / G.E.M by Jane Clarke and Garry Parsons (picture book)
Chocolate Planet by Jon Blake (story set in a fantasy world) / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Quick, Let’s Get Out of Here by Michael Rosen (see ‘Chocolate Cake’)
Aliens in Underpants Save the World by Claire Freedman
We’re Off to Look for Aliens by Colin McNaughton
Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram
3 / 19/6/17 / Unit 6 Writing Fiction
Picture books
Stories set in fantasy worlds
4 / 26/6/17 / Unit 6 Reading and Writing Non-Fiction
Information texts / Chocolate
5 / 3/7/17 / Poetry by Heart / Cats by Eleanor Farjeon
I’d Like to Squeeze by John Agard
6 / 10/7/17 / Text Type leading to extended writing –
Science fiction story
7 / 17/7/17