Year 1 Unit Planning Overview

Year 2 Unit Planning Overview

Narrative	UNIT 1                  Stories with familiar settings	UNIT 2                    Traditional stories	UNIT 3                     Different stories by the same author	UNIT 4                      Extended stories / significant authors
Non-fiction	UNIT 1 Instructions	UNIT 2 Explanations	UNIT 3 Information texts	UNIT 4 Non-chronological reports
Poetry	UNIT 1 Patterns on the page	UNIT 2 Really looking		UNIT 3 Silly stuff

Year 3 Unit Planning Overview

Narrative, plays and scripts	UNIT 1             Stories with familiar settings	UNIT 2              Myths and legends	UNIT 3              Adventure and mystery	UNIT 4              Authors and letters	UNIT 5                  Dialogue and plays
Non-fiction	UNIT 1 Reports		UNIT 2 Instructions		UNIT 3 Information texts
Poetry	UNIT 1 Poems to perform		UNIT 2 Shape Poetry and calligrams		UNIT 3 Language play

Year 4 Unit Planning Overview

Narrative, plays and scripts	UNIT 1               Stories with historical settings	UNIT 2               Stories set in imaginary worlds	UNIT 3              Stories from other cultures	UNIT 4                Stories which raise issues / dilemmas	UNIT 5             Plays
Non-fiction	UNIT 1 Recounts: newspapers / magazines	UNIT 2 Information texts	UNIT 3 Explanation texts	UNIT 4 Persuasive texts
Poetry	UNIT 1 Creating images		UNIT 2 Exploring form

Year 5 Unit Planning Overview

Narrative, plays and scripts	UNIT 1           Novels and stories by significant children's authors		UNIT 2           Traditional stories, fables, myths, legends		UNIT 3           Stories from other cultures		UNIT 4          Older literature		UNIT 5           Film narrative		UNIT 6           Dramatic conventions
Non-fiction		UNIT 1 Instructions		UNIT 2 Reports / explanations				UNIT 3 Persuasive writing	UNIT 4 Transition: Persuasive writing
Poetry			UNIT 1 Poetic style			UNIT 2 Classic / narrative style				UNIT 3 Choral and performance

Year 6 Unit Planning Overview

Narrative, plays and scripts	UNIT 1                      Fiction genres	UNIT 2                      Extending narrative	UNIT 3                   Authors and texts	UNIT 4                 Short stories with flashbacks
Non-fiction	UNIT 1 Biography and autobiography	UNIT 2 Journalistic writing	UNIT 3 Argument	UNIT 4 Formal/ impersonal writing
Poetry	UNIT 1 The power of imagery		UNIT 2 Finding a voice
Revision	UNIT 1 Reading and writing narrative (and plays)	UNIT 2 Reading and writing non-fiction	UNIT 3 Reading Poetry