In the Spring Term, we will be continuing our writing journey by developing both our handwriting and our composition skills. We will focus on forming letters clearly and consistently, ensuring correct size, spacing and joins to build fluency and confidence. Alongside this, we will strengthen our writing by exploring a range of grammatical features, including expanded noun phrases to add detail, coordinating conjunctions (such as and, but and or) and subordinating conjunctions (such as because, when and if) to extend our ideas. We will also practise writing different types of sentences, including statements, questions, commands and exclamations, helping us to become more thoughtful, creative and independent writers.

 

 We will be getting inspiration from the following books: 

  

 

Text: When the Rains Come by Tom Pow 

Audience: KS1 (in an assembly) 

Purpose: to entertain the reader by writing a story with a moral. 

Outcome: to write a story with a moral to be shared in assembly with KS1. 

Other Texts to Share: 

Aesop’s Fables 

 

Text: How to be a Pirate in 10 easy Stages by Scoular Anderson 

Audience: Year 1 

Purpose: to inform the Year 1s about pirates and how to be one. 

Outcome: to write an information page on how to be an alien in 10 easy stages. 

Other Texts to Share: 

DK Pirates 

The Pirate Meets the Queen by Matt Faulkner 

 

Text: The Tear Thief by Carol Ann Duffy 

Audience: their best friend 

Purpose: to entertain by making the reader feel a range of familiar emotions. 

Outcome: to write a story with a beginning, middle and end about a fairy who steals something linked to an emotion. 

Other Texts to Share: 

The BFG by Roald Dahl 

 

Text: Look Inside Your Body bv Louie Stowell 

Audience: their families 

Purpose: to inform their parents about how humans survive and stay healthy.

Outcome: to write an information page about what humans need to survive and stay healthy. 

Other Texts to Share: 

Questions and Answers about Your Body by Katie Daynes