St. Aidan’s Catholic Primary
Literacy Overview
Year 1
Autumn | Spring | Summer | |
Diversity | Shaping our world | Fast Forward | |
Core reading Books | Nibbles Book Monster (RS) Look up Martha Maps it out (RS) | Hansel & Gretel Snow White (Candy House – Gramm Unit) Julia Dondaldson focus | Benji Davis focus The Storm Whale The Grewat Strom Whale |
Curriculum linked texts | A Ticket to Kalamazoo Spread my Wings | Squash and a Squeeze Great Women Who Changed the World - Mary Seacole | The Majic Bojabi Tree |
Writing genres | Poetry – Rhyme Lists & captions Place Value of Punctuation & grammar Narrative - Diversity – BAME characters Non-fiction – Instructions Narrative - Christmas theme | Narrative - Setting descriptions Non-Fiction – Newspaper Reports famous Females Narrative – Female Author Study Explanation – science | Non-Fiction -Persuasive texts Narrative – Tales from another culture Non-Fiction - Letter writing Poetry – shaping our world |