Quality Texts and Poetry Overview 2019-2020

Reception:

Before the children join EYFS they are all involved in a transition project, which they undertake at their Pre-school/Nursery setting. Previously, the children have focused on the book ‘Owl Babies’ and have made Owl puppets and recorded their adventures with their Owl during the summer holidays. On entering school these are then shared with the class and provide the children with something they are familiar and secure to engage in speaking activities. It also helps provide a starting point to their first topic ‘All About Me’. After this topic has been carried out planning is linked to the children’s interests and questions about what they would like to learn. They suggest topics and things they would like to find out about and activities they would like to do. Story books are linked to the learning and are a focal point of the topic. These topics can be weekly or fortnightly depending on the children’s interests and engagement. We ensure the planning allows for all 17 areas of development that the Early Years are required to assess and a range of activities are planned through focused and child initiated play.

Books covered in EY so far 2019-2020

Year 1

Autumn Spring Summer Toys Truly Scrumptious and Gate to Plate Castles

‘Lost at the Toy Museum’ – David Lucas

Brown Bear Brown Bear – Eric Carle

Kipper’s Toybox – Mike Inkpen

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

by Marjorie Priceman

Pancakes, Pancakes Eric Carle

The Gingerbread man

The squash and the squeeze Julia Donaldson

The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch &

Michael Martchenko

Jim and The Beanstalk Raymond Briggs

The Kiss That Missed David Melling

Jack and the beanstalk

Poem: Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne traditional poems

Reading for Pleasure: Pumpkin Soup Helen Cooper

Poem: Michael Rosen – Chocolate Cake

Reading for Pleasure: Mr Wolf’s Pancakes Jan Fearnley

Poem: Castle in the Sand – Dorothy Baker

Reading for Pleasure: Anna Hibiscus Atinuke and Lauren Tobia

Year 2

Autumn Spring Summer Dreams and Dragons Voyages of Discovery In a World of Our Own.

The Egg and The Great Dragon Rescue – MP Robertson The Dragon Machine – Helen Ward

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson The Pirate Cruncher – Jonny Duddle

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett Masha and the Firebird - Anne Wilson and Margaret Bateson-Hill

Poetry Storm Dragon - https://www.broadheath.coventry.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Storm-Dragon.pdf

Reading for Pleasure: The Bear and the Piano – David Litchfield

Poetry – My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Sea Shanty

Reading for Pleasure: Leaf – Sandra Diekmann

Poetry – Shirley Hughes Out and About

Reading for Pleasure: Hotel Flamingo Alex Milway

Year 3

Autumn Spring Summer Stone age – Iron Age Settlements Romans

Stone Age Boy – Satoshi Kitamura

The Secrets of Stonehenge - Mick Manning

The Iron Man – Ted Hughes Leon and the Space Between Angela McAllister

Poetry: A River’s Tale – Rudyard

Escape from Pompeii – Christina Balit The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

Poetry: I was Born in the Stoneage – Michael Rosen.

Reading for Pleasure: The Pebble in my Pocket Meredith Hooper and Chris Coady

Kipling

Reading for Pleasure: The Abominables Eva Ibbotson

Poetry: Boudicca Warrior Queen – Ima Ryma

Reading for Pleasure: The Nothing to see Here Hotel Steven Butler and Steven Lenton

Year 4

Autumn Spring Summer The Amazon Vikings and Anglo Saxons Aztec Adventures

Journey to the River Sea – Eva

Ibbotson

Freedom for Bron: The Boy who Saved a

Kingdom – N.S Blackman

The Rain Player – David Wisneiski

Poetry: Grace Nicholls For Forest

Reading for Pleasure: The Journey Francesca Sanna

Poetry: King Canute Paul Perro

Reading for Pleasure: The Train to Impossible Places – PG Bell and Flavio Sorrentino

Poetry: Under the Spell of the Moon

Katherine Paterson

Reading for Pleasure: The Great Chocoplot – Chris Callghan

Year 5

Autumn Spring Summer Medieval Realms Egyptians

Outlaw – Michael Morpurgo

Beowulf -

The Highway Man – Alfred Noyes

I am the Mummy Heb-Nefert – Eve Bunting

Poetry: Fleas, Flies and Friars – poetry from

the Middle Ages

Reading for Pleasure:

Black Powder – Ally Sherrick

Poetry: The Highwayman

Reading for Pleasure: The Goldfish Boy

Poetry: To the Nile – John Keats

Reading for Pleasure:

Louis Sachar – Holes

Year 6

Autumn Spring Summer Conflict Europe Greeks

Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo Goodnight Mr Tom – Michelle Magorian

Rooftoppers – Katherine Rundell

Greek Mythology

Poetry: In Flanders Field John McCrae

Reading for Pleasure: Running on the Roof of the World Jess Butterworth

Poetry: To The River Rhone - Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reading For Pleasure: The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Rauf

Poetry: Homer The Iliad (Great for Greek warfare )

Reading for Pleasure: The Boy in the Tower Polly Ho-Yen

Take One Texts Previously Covered:

Take One – Environment and Sustainability

Take One – Celebrating Differences