Throckley Primary School
Rising 3’s and Nursery’s English Curriculum Overview
Whole School Shared Texts
Autumn Spring Summer
Value Learning Respect Teamwork Caring Pride Success
Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker
One Little Bird by Sheryl Webster
Under the Same Sky by Britta Teckentrup
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig Elmer by David McKee Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
Vocabulary
Throckley Primary School
Rising 3’s and Nursery’s English Curriculum Overview
A range of different sounds (tap, bang, crash etc.
Word Letter
Character
Question Answer
Author Illustrator
Beginning/middle/end Words
Marks Grip Letters
Forms of writing through play (list, story, shopping, menu etc.)
Incidental vocabulary
Further vocabulary will be planned for weekly and woven through the curriculum. Children will be exposed to a wide range of vocabulary through rich stories, newly taught knowledge and exploration. They will be introduced to, develop, explore and use their new vocabulary.
They will be given opportunities to embed their knowledge of new vocabulary through discussions, speech and play.
Literacy- Word Reading
Autumn
Children will begin to recognise their ‘special letter’ in the environment.
Children will be exposed to their picture alongside their written name.
Children will know that print has meaning (through text in the environment, names and stories).
Children will know that we follow text from left to right. This includes turning pages of the book and looking at the images from left to right and top to bottom.
Children will listen to, and name, sounds in the environment.
Children will be able to make changes to sounds to make them loud/quiet/slow/fast.
Spring
Children will continue to develop their knowledge that print has meaning (through text in the environment, names and stories).
Children will know that we follow text from left to right. This includes turning pages of the book and looking at the images from left to right and top to bottom, turning one page at a time.
Children will be exposed to books that include rhyme. They will be supported to identify the rhyming words.
Children will be able to recognise their name in the environment (working wall).
Summer
Throckley Primary School
Rising 3’s and Nursery’s English Curriculum Overview
Children will begin to identify the initial phoneme in words.
Children will begin looking at oral blending (in a play based situation Can you please pass the c ar. Can I have the r e d one please?) and through adult led learning tasks.
Children will be able to identify their name when it is mixed in with other words that begin with the same capital letter (knowing their name and not just recognising the capital letter).
Literacy- Comprehension
Autumn
Children listen to short stories with increasing attention and recall.
Children begin to repeat and use actions, words or phrases from familiar stories.
Children fill in the missing word or phrase in a well-known rhyme or story.
Spring
Children begin to repeat and use actions, words or phrases from familiar stories.
Children fill in the missing word or phrase in a well-known rhyme or story.
Children begin to be aware of the way stories are structured.
Children will be able to listen to a short story and answer simple questions (who, where, when).
Children talk about significant events that take place in stories (The wolf blows the house down. Jack climbs the beanstalk).
Children can say who some of the characters in the story are.
Summer
Children begin to be aware of the way stories are structured, with some understanding that texts have a beginning, middle and an end.
Children will be able to listen to a short story and answer simple questions (how and why).
Children can say who the main characters in the story are.
Children begin to know that the author writes the words in the story.
Children begin to know that the illustrator draws the pictures.
Children will begin to understand that information can be gained from text.
Children have some awareness that non fiction books tell use facts about real things
Throckley Primary School
Rising 3’s and Nursery’s English Curriculum Overview
Literacy- Writing
Using the Read Write Inc scheme, class teachers will begin to dip into phonics to help support the transition to Reception and ensure early success in reading, writing and spelling.
Autumn
Children will make marks through different writing opportunities (shopping lists, menus, pictures, cards etc.).
Children will begin to write the initial letter from their name with some support.
Children will be encouraged to use a tripod grip to hold their writing tool using grip it, pick it, flick it method.
Spring
Children will give meaning to the marks they make through different writing opportunities (shopping lists, menus, pictures, cards etc.).
Children will be able to write some recognisable letters from their name.
Children will be encouraged to use a tripod grip to hold their writing tool.
Summer
Children will give meaning to the marks they make in different writing opportunities (shopping lists, menus, pictures, cards etc.) There may be some recognisable letters beginning to form.
Children will be able to write their name from memory or limited scaffold, with some correct formations.
Children will be able to use a tripod grip to hold their writing tool.
Communication and Language Listening, Attention and Understanding
Autumn
Children will spend time listening to, learning and singing a wide range of songs and rhymes.
Children will begin to sit and be quiet during a short story time/ group time, using some reminders or picture prompts.
Children will follow the 1, 2 3 empty hands prompt. Children will begin to associate the tidy up song to tidying up the classroom.
Children will know that they need to be quiet when someone else is talking during group time.
Throckley Primary School
Rising 3’s and Nursery’s English Curriculum Overview
Children will learn what it means to be a good listener through development of class rules which will be clearly displayed and referred back to daily.
Spring
Children will listen to stories of increasing length and will be able to talk about what happens.
Children can shift from one task to another if attention is gained by saying their name.
Focus on various question words and what they mean (who, where, what).
Active listening is expected.
Children will be able to sit and listen before responding to questions with relevant responses.
Children keep play going by responding to others with relevant questions, comments or actions.
Children can follow one step instructions (sit down, line up, and get your coat).
Summer
Active listening is expected. Children will be able to sit and listen before responding to questions with relevant responses.
Children keep play going by responding to others with relevant questions, comments or actions.
Children can follow an instruction that has two parts. (Get your coat and line up.)
Children can answer simple why and how questions.
Speaking Autumn
Children will be exposed to new language through high quality talk, books, language rich environment and adult interaction.
New language will be displayed in different classroom areas and tasks.
Must read books provide children with opportunities to listen to and learn repeated parts of books.
Children will join in with repeated refrains from familiar stories.
Children are able to give a verbal response to ‘good morning’ on the register.
Children will ask an adult for support when needed by saying, ‘Please can you help?’ This will be modelled back to them if asked incorrectly.
Children will make their needs known to staff by asking to go to the toilet, or using visual cues if appropriate.
Children to expand their awareness of using the correct tense in wider conversation.
Developing pronunciation model correctly.
Spring
Throckley Primary School
Rising 3’s and Nursery’s English Curriculum Overview
Children will be exposed to new language through high quality talk, books, language rich environment and adult interaction.
New language will be dropped into different classroom areas and tasks.
Children will start a conversation with a friend or adult. The conversation will consist of turn taking and not one person doing all the talking and the other listening. Adults will model this through high quality adult interaction.
Children will use talk to organise their play.
Children use talk to make their feelings known.
They are able to seek support from an adult when they are finding something difficult or have had a disagreement with a peer.
Children will be given opportunities to practise expressing their point of view.
Developing pronunciation model correctly.
Summer
Children will be exposed to new language through high quality talk, books, language rich environment and adult interaction.
New language will be dropped into different classroom areas and tasks.
Children will be able to use sentences of 4 6 words (I want to play with cars. What’s that thing called?’
Children can use past and future tense with increasing accuracy.
Children begin to use and, because and or to join sentences together. (I like the park because it is fun. I like to go to the park and play on the swing.)
Developing pronunciation – model correctly.
Throughout the year, class teachers will plan, teach and assess in line with the objectives and vocabulary outlined above. As well as this, children will discover a range of exciting, purposefully-selected texts (please see Rising 3’s and Nursery’s Reading Library below) to help support and develop fundamental skills so that they are Reception ready and also instil a love and passion for the world of English.
For more information on how English is taught within the Early Years at Throckley Primary School, please see the school website.
