A great book to use if you have a topic theme of explorers or for writing in a different way about a residential visit.

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1 English Teaching Sequences Book List overview for Upper Key Stage 2 Text Yrs5 and 6 Grammar Charles Dickens: scenes from an extraordinary life by Manning and Granstrom This book provides a perfect model for an author study. Verbs tense and form Complex including non-finite constructions 1 st and 3 rd person Cohesion within paragraphs Dragonology from Templar Publishers Non-chronological report Range of text types within the book Formal, impersonal writing, multi-clause, noun, commas, brackets and dashes Shackleton s Journey by William Grill Chronological report A great book to use if you have a topic theme of explorers or for writing in a different way about a residential visit. Embedded clauses, relative clauses, subordination, contrasting length of, modal verbs, different ways of starting Animalium by Jenny Broom Non-chronological reports This book would link well to science work including relative clauses, passive, dashes, complex My Secret War Diary by Marcia Williams Adverbials, a range of sentence constructions, dashes Persuasive Speech text included with sequence Modal verbs, expanded noun, topic

2 Where My Wellies Take Me by Michael and Clare Morpurgo part 1 This sequence links well to the geography curriculum, writing about a walk that children have undertaken a number of times Range of punctuation, length of for effect, verb choice Where My Wellies Take Me part 2 is about linking poetry to the walk. This is a 2 week sequence with a reading and poetry presentation emphasis. A Word in Your Ear by Tony Ross short stories Paragraphs and cohesion, expanding ideas across paragraphs, narrative and dialogue, sentence construction, semi-colon Incredible Edibles by Stefan Gates a science flavoured cook book 101 Things To Do to Become a Superhero or evil genius by Helen Szirtes Varjak Paw by S.F. Said Semi-colons Paragraphs and cohesion 2014 Beowulf by Kevin Crossley-Holland Semi-colons, hyphens, noun, power of three

3 Bethlehem by Carol Anne Duffy (poetry) Adverbial phrase, clause, semi-colon Black and White by David Macaulay Yr2 to Yr5 Adverbials, expanded noun Car brochures Cloudbusting by Malorie Blackman (poetry) Hyphens, expanded nouns, embedded clauses Drove of Bullocks by PatrickGeorge (nonchron) Extreme Animals by Nicola Davies (nonchron report) Ways to open, noun, adverbials, range of punctuation Noun, multi-clause How the Whale Became by Ted Hughes Yr6 Adverbial, commas to mark boundaries of clauses, clauses Ice Bear by Jackie Morris Sentence length, noun Jungle Survival Handbook Complex, adverbials, verb choice Lion Journal by Caroline Franklyn (recount with a range of forms) Tenses, verbs, brackets, dashes, relative pronoun, relative clause

4 A Thief in the Village by James Berry Speech, adverbial, sentence length, power of three The Princess Blankets by Carol Ann Duffy Speech, clauses, sentence openers, semi-colons Ripley s Mighty Machines (non-chron) Relative clauses, relative pronouns The Secrets of Stonehenge by Manning and Granstrom (chron report) Complex, colons Survival at 40C Above by Debbie S Miller (chron report) Relative clauses, noun Sequence can also be adapted for use with Survival at 40 Below The Tear Thief by Carol Anne Duffey Prepositions, prepositional, adverbial, power of three The Day The Crayons Quit (whole KS2) Noun, adjectives, clauses, complex I am Cat by Jackie Morris (poetry) Power of three, complex, clauses

5 The Usborne Illustrated Thesaurus Antonym, synonym Wallace and Gromit Cracking Contraptions Passive, active, noun The Shadow Cage by Phillipa Pearce Semi-colon, complex, suspense