Writing

Writing  

At Townfield we follow the ‘Ready, Steady, Write’ scheme of work from Years 1 to Y6.

The writing curriculum we offer, follows the national curriculum in KS1 and KS2 and the EYFS Statutory Framework and Development Matters in the early years. Our writing curriculum is ambitious and designed to give all learners, particularly the most disadvantaged and those with special educational needs, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. Where required, pedagogy is adapted so that all pupils including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND are on the same knowledge journey towards the same endpoints.

‘Ready, Steady, Write’ is evidence-based teaching of writing through comprehensive units that have been carefully constructed so the entire statutory curriculum for English is covered from Yr 1 to Y6. Each unit has a specific writing outcome for the narrative and non-narrative form to ensure pupils are given opportunities to write for many different purposes, these are explained for each term below. 

Components are carefully sequenced so new knowledge builds on what has been previously taught and leads to the end points. All writing lessons following a planning approach of, 'Immerse, Analyse, Plan and Write.' 

The detailed units of work centre on engaging, vocabulary-rich texts, with a wealth of writing opportunities within and across the curriculum. They provide: 

• Clear sequential lesson plans
• Vocabulary learning and contextualised spelling, grammar and punctuation 
• Wider reading for the wider curriculum
• Curriculum Enrichments
• Model Texts linked to writing outcomes

For further information on our curriculum intent, implementation and impact, please see our curriculum page.

Progression of skills are linked at the bottom of the page.

 

Early Years Writing Curriculum

Read to Write Overview

 

 

  

  AUTUMN TERM

 

Nursery

Autumn 1:

Children: 

Begin to show control over larger movements e.g skipping hopping climbing.

Begin to show an interest in fine motor activities e.g threading, tweezers. 

Be able to make marks with mark making equipment and talk about the marks.

               

 

Autumn 2:

Children:

Show growing control over larger movements e.g skipping hopping climbing.

Show growing control over fine motor activities e.g threading, tweezers. 

Show an interest in using a range of mark making materials. 

 

Reception

Autumn 1:

• To be able to write name independently with the correct lowercase and uppercase letters
• To begin to correctly form lower case letters for each single letter sound of the alphabet.
• To begin to use their sound knowledge to write messages- e.g using initial sounds to represent words.

Autumn 2:

• To be able to write name independently with the correct lowercase and uppercase letters
• To be able to correctly form lower case letters for each single letter sound of the alphabet.
• To be able to use their sound knowledge to write messages- e.g using initial sounds to represent words. 

 

Year 1

Autumn 1:

Vehicle Text: Major Glad, Major Dizzy 

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'discovery' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a basic recount. 

Autumn 2:

Vehicle Text: Rapunzel

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a set of instictions about how to catch a witch.  

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recount with the purpose of providing information. 

     

Year 2

Autumn 1:

Vehicle Text: A River

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'circular' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a information letter.  

Autumn 2:

Vehicle Text: The Night Gardener

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'setting' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recount in the form of a diary entry. 

Year 3

Autumn 1:

Vehicle Text: Fox

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'fable' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a information text about Foxes.   

Autumn 2:

Vehicle Text: Seen Not Heard

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'character' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a set of instuctions about how to be mischievous. 

 

Year 4

Autumn 1:

Vehicle Text: The Journey

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'refugee' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a diary entry with the purpose to recount.  

Autumn 2:

Vehicle Text: Manfish

Narrative Outcome: Children will write an 'invention' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a biography about Jacques Cousteau. 

 

   

Year 5

Autumn 1:

Vehicle Text: Where we once stood

Narrative Outcome: Children will write an 'exploration' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a formal recount with the purpose to report. 

Autumn 2:

Vehicle Text: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'cliffhanger' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a formal event report. 

 

Year 6

Autumn 1:

Vehicle Text: Rose Blanche

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a descriptive diary entry. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a bravery speech with the purpose to recount and inform.  

Autumn 2:

Vehicle Text: A Story Like the Wind

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'flashback' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a newspaper report. 

 

 

SPRING TERM

Nursery

Children will learn their first set of sounds and begin to apply some phonic knowledge in their reading and writing.

      

       

Reception

Spring 1:

• To begin to take care when forming letters and control size.
• To begin to spell and write two and three sound words

Spring 2:

• To be able  to spell and write two and three sound words.
• To be able to correctly form the consonant digraphs sh, th, ng, nk, qu, ch, ll, ss, ff, zz, ck
• To begin to spell and write words containing the consonant digraphs  sh, th, ng, nk, qu, ch ll, ss, ff, zz, ck
• To begin to spell and  write short captions using their sound knowledge e.g red shop, bad dog.

Year 1

Spring 1:

Vehicle Text: Hermelin

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'detective' story.  

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recount in the form of a letter. 

Spring 2:

Vehicle Text: Where the Wild Things Are

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'portal' story. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an information text about the wild things.  

        

 

Year 3

Spring 1:

Vehicle Text: The Iron Man

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a narrative that includes a threat.   

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an explanation text about how to capture the Iron Man. 

Spring 2:

Vehicle Text: Jemmy Button

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'return' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recount letter. 

               

Year 4

Spring 1:

Vehicle Text: Arthur and the Golden Rope

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'myth' narrative.   

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an information text about how to defeat a Viking monster. 

Spring 2:

Vehicle Text: The Lost Happy Endings

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'twisted tale' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a persuasive letter. 

     

     

Year 5

Spring 1:

Vehicle Text: The Promise

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'hopeless' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a biography about Henry Brown.

Spring 2:

Vehicle Text: FArTHER

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'setting' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will a newspaper report about a positive action. 

 

Year 6

Spring 1:

Vehicle Text: On the Origin of the Species

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'discovery' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an explanation text all about adaptation. 

Spring 2:

Vehicle Text: The Ways of the Wolf

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'first person suspense' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a balanced argument about habitats. 

    

SUMMER TERM

Nursery

Children will begin to blend and segment. They will explore non-fiction texts linked to minibeasts and acting out scenes from Handa’s Surprise and also The Enormous Turnip.

Reception

Summer 1:

• To be able  to spell and write words containing the consonant digraphs  sh, th, ng, nk, qu, ch ll, ss, ff, zz, ck
• To be able to correctly form the vowel digraphs ay, ee,igh, ow, oo, oo
• To begin to spell and write words containing the vowel digraphs  ay, ee,igh, ow, oo, oo
• To begin to spell and write four sound words e.g pram, skip, jump

          

Summer 2:

• To be able to spell  and  write words containing the vowel digraphs  ay, ee,igh, ow, oo, oo
• To be able  to spell and write four sound words e.g pram, skip, jump
• To begin to able to correctly form the  digraphs ar, or, air, ir, ou, oy
• To begin to spell and  write words containing the digraphs  ar, or, air, ir, ou, oy
• To be able to spell and write some common misconception words
• To be able to write short sentences using their sound knowledge and capital letters, full stops and finger spaces.

 

Year 1

Summer 1:

Vehicle Text: The Secret of Black Rock

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'return' story.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recount in the form of a postcard. 

Summer 2:

Vehicle Text: The Last Wolf

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'hunting' story. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recipe with the purpose to instruct.  

                       

                                                                                                                     

Year 2

Summer 1:

Vehicle Text: The King who Banned the Dark

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'mistake' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an information text about how to be a regal leader. 

Summer 2:

Vehicle Text: Rosie Revere

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a narrative that includes an invention.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an explanation text explaining how a machine works.  

Year 3

Summer 1:

Vehicle Text: Egyptology

Narrative Outcome: Children will write an 'Egyptian Mystery' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an diary that includes a secret. 

Summer 2:

Vehicle Text: Into the Forest

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'lost' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a newspaper report. 

 

Year 4

Summer 1:

Vehicle Text: The Whale

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'setting' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a newspaper/journalistic report. 

Summer 2:

Vehicle Text: Leaf

Narrative Outcome: Children will write an 'outsider' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a information text about Polar Bears.  

 

Year 5

Summer 1:

Vehicle Text: The Lost Book of Adventure

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'survival' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write an explanation survival guide. 

Summer 2:

Vehicle Text: King Kong

Narrative Outcome: Children will write an 'dilemma' narrative.

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a balanced argument.  

 

Year 6

Summer 1:

Vehicle Text: Shackleton's Journey

Narrative Outcome: Children will write an 'endurance' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a recount magazine article.  

Summer 2:

Vehicle Text: Hansel and Gretel

Narrative Outcome: Children will write a 'dual' narrative. 

Non-Narrative Outcome: Children will write a persuasion letter. 

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