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ENGLISH CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
| GRADE/YEAR |
KEY AREAS OF STUDY |
| KG1/Reception Year |
Organise, sequence, clarify thinking; listen attentively; extend imagination, vocabulary; link sounds to letter names; form letters correctly; read simple CVC, CVCC, CCVC words, H/Fsight words; know common digraphs, phonemes, graphemes; know basic story elements/retell narratives; learn songs/rhymes/poems; attempt writing for a purpose, write own name, basic punctuation. |
| KG2/Year1 |
Reading with interpretation, sustained concentration, listening accurately, following directions, express views; take turns, ask/answer questions; improvisation, role play; more difficult graphemes, phonemes, 2/3 syllable words, decoding phonetically; use syntax, predictions, context in reading for meaning; fiction/non-fiction, narrative elements/patterns; spaces, capitals, period. |
| Grade1/Year2 |
Intonation, adventurous vocab, nonverbal gestures; traditional stories; trigraphs, medium frequency words; spelling patterns/double letters; organisational features of text; explore reaction to text; use of person, tense, time, style, purpose of text; identifying main points; enacting/interpreting; familiar story language; compound sentences,?/commas, 4 basic h/w joins. |
| Grade2/Year3 |
Performance poetry, explanations/reasons; gesture, action, costume in drama; prefixes/suffixes, morphological rules; descriptive language; debate moral dilemmas; identify main points in text; form/purpose in writing; success criteria; conflict/ sequencing in narratives; paragraphing; connectives, adjectives, verbs, nouns, exclamation and speech marks; keyboard skills |
| Grade3/Year4 |
Viewpoint, opinion, reasoning, evidence, arguments; improvise scripts; etymology, homophones, common spelling rules; summarising; character study; figurative/expressive language; genres; settings/characterisation, nonnarrative writing; words for humour, emphasis, atmosphere, suspense; paragraphs, conjunctions, adverbs, phrases, clauses, possessive apostrophe. |
| Grade4/Year5 |
Cue cards, spoken argument, question types; formal/informal speech, persuasive language; script writing; less common prefixes/suffixes; explanations, perspective and implication; themes in text; editing/publishing; experimental writing; different types of narrative/information texts; direct/reported speech; text ordering, topic sentences; handwriting for specific purposes. |
| Grade5/Year6 |
Conventions/language of debate; note taking, analysis/evaluation of language in context/purpose; critiquing work; drama performance; editing/proofreading; longer novels from various periods; viewpoints, literary features; hypothesis, speculation, supposition; punctuation in complex sentences to clarify meaning; develop a consistent, personal, legible handwriting style. |
| Grade 6/Year 7 |
READING LITERATURE- traditional tales, poetry, writer's craft. WRITING TO IMAGINE,/EXPLORE/ ENTERTAIN- writing stories, creating people /places, word play. READING NON-FICTION AND MEDIA- evaluate presentations, investigating media, reading for different purposes. WRITING NON-FICTION- focusing on audience/purpose, persuading readers, expressing point of view. SPEAKING AND LISTENING- telling, describing, explaining, instructing. WORDS: SPELLING STRATEGIES AND VOCABULARY- syllables, plurals, apostrophes, prefixes, etymology, confusing words. |
| Grade 7/Year 8 |
READING LITERATURE- genre, different forms of text, literature from other cultures. WRITING TO IMAGINE,/EXPLORE/ENTERTAIN- shaping of stories, poetry and drama. READING NON-FICTION AND MEDIA- engaging information, understanding point of view, Shakespeare. WRITING NON-FICTION- effective presentation, writing to analyse, review, persuade, advise. SPEAKING AND LISTENING- drama, group work, presentation. WORDS: SPELLING STRATEGIES AND VOCABULARY- spelling strategies, plurals, prefixes, apostrophes, homophones, handwriting. |
| Grade 8/Year 9 |
READING LITERATURE- appreciating variety, reading in depth, recognising stance. WRITING TO IMAGINE/ EXPLORE/ENTERTAIN- crafting stories, writing to entertain, developing ideas. READING NON-FICTION AND MEDIA- points of view, advertising, bias. WRITING NON-FICTION- inform, describe, explain, persuasive speech, writing to advise/analyse. SPEAKING AND LISTENING- presentations, drama, working together. WORDS: SPELLING STRATEGIES AND VOCABULARY- word origins, dictionary, thesaurus, polysyllabic words, prefixes, suffixes, homophones. |
| NB.KEYAREAS:KS1/2 |
SPEAK, LISTEN/RESPOND, DISCUSS/INTERACT, DRAMA, WORD RECOGNITION, STRUCTURE/SPELLING, UNDERSTAND /INTERPRET /ENGAGE WITH/RESPOND TO/CREATE/SHAPE TEXTS, TEXT/SENTENCE STRUCTURE/ORGANISATION/PUNCTUATION, PRESENTATION |
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