Year 1 Term 1: Building skills and sharing stories (10–12 weeks)
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Personal reading books: 30 minutes of guided reading per week
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Ten basic spellings / common errors / homophones per week
Recommended additional resources
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Selection of two or three short stories of your choice to suit your cohort Own reading books
Write stories of their own on a theme or based on a picture
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Class reader (20th-century / accessible) for pleasure and comprehension practice
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AQA KS3 English Language Paper 1 with mark scheme
Basic reading comprehension skills (Core 3.1–3.2) Use skills to apply to collection of short stories Work on basic punctuation (Core 1.4–1.5) Explore techniques for storytelling and writing stories / narrative structures (Core 8.5)
Assessment
Etymological dictionaries Thesaurus Accessible Year 9 class reader
Using AQA KS3 Practice ‘GCSE style’ Paper 1 Section B. At this stage use the Year 8 paper. Feedback
Term 2: Creativity and analysis (10–12 weeks)
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Personal reading books: 30 minutes of guided reading per week
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Use persuasive writing in topic-based letters
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Write a persuasive speech for a class debate
Ten basic spellings per week following patterns (Core 1.1) Introduce basic grammar and agreement (Core 1.3) Analyse short persuasive texts and identify persuasive features and rhetorical devices (Core 9.1) Look at two or three famous (extracts from) speeches, including one from Shakespeare, and identify techniques
Recommended additional resources
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Own reading books
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Dictionaries
Assessment Using AQA KS3 Practice ‘GCSE style’ Paper 2 Section B. At this stage use the Year 8 paper. Feedback
Collins Non-fiction for GCSE Teacher Pack, ‘Charity’ and ‘Travel’ sections Thesaurus AQA KS3 Paper 2, Section B, and mark scheme
Term 3: Building skills in the craft of writing (10–12 weeks)
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Personal reading books: 30 minutes of guided reading per week
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Look at poems connected to pictures and complete some analysis
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Introduce some descriptive tools (Core 8.3)
Ten subject-specific spellings / English terminology words per week An introduction to literature (Core 2.1)
Recommended additional resources
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2–3 poems with an interesting structure / use of technique connected to paintings or pictures
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Own reading books
Learn about structure and some key literary terms (perhaps 6–8 key terms with consolidation work) from your chosen poems Use picture stimulus to write poems developing an interesting structure and using similes and metaphors Introduce effective paragraphing (Core 1.8)
Dictionaries Thesaurus AQA KS3 English Language Paper 1 for Year 9
Write a descriptive piece
End-of-Year-9 assessment AQA KS3 ‘GCSE style’ practice Paper 1. Use the Year 9 paper. Feedback
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