Year 2

Year 2

Term

 

Autumn 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driver Text: The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson

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Fiction

Non Fiction

Poetry

Narrative – creating a setting using descriptive language.

Information- create a fact file about owls.

Poems with rhythm and repetition

After Dark by Michael Rosen

Autumn 2

Driver Text: Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

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Fiction

Non Fiction

Poetry

Retelling the story from the duck’s point of view. Concentrating on the character’s feelings and behaviour.

Instructions – recipes write own recipes for making sandwiches.

Cats by Eleanor Farjeon

Write simple rhyming poems about animals and perform own compositions

Spring 1

Driver Text: Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett

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Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Adventure story – create a new adventure for Sunny the meerkat.

 

 

 

Travel leaflets- writing information leaflets to advertise different world destinations.

List poems- what’s in the suitcase/where have they been?

 

 

Spring 2

Driver Text: Dr Xargle’s Book of Earthlets

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Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Descriptive writing.

Describing everyday items and actions in a way an alien would understand. Create a hand book for aliens.

Report- write report about major events in space exploration.

Acrostic poems on the theme of space.

Summer 1

Driver Text: The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers

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Fiction

Non- Fiction

Poetry

Diary- write a series of diary entries describing William’s experiences.

Explanation- Why do trees lose their leaves?

Sense Poetry- using the five senses to create descriptive poems.

Summer 2

Driver Text: Jack and the Baked Beanstalk by Colin Stimpson

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Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Narrative plot and setting- compare this story with the traditional tale. Create a new setting and a new twist to the tale.

Persuasive letter – write a letter to the council to persuade them not to demolish Birkenhead Priory.

Riddles – What am I…

                I am a…?

 

 

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