Unit 1
This is the first of a block of four narrative units in Year 1. It builds on children's experience and knowledge from the Early Years Foundation Stage and introduces new areas of learning that will be developed during the year. The unit can be linked to many other curriculum areas such as history or personal, social and health education. It can be taught in two sequences each lasting two weeks, as illustrated, or as a single 4-week unit. The teaching sequence is repeated but the texts read and the writing outcomes are different.

Unit 2
Stories from a range of cultures/Predictable patterned language
(4 weeks or 2 x 2 weeks)
This is the second of a block of four narrative units in Year 1. It builds on children's experience and knowledge from Early Years Foundation Stage and Year 1 narrative unit 1. The unit can be linked to many other curriculum areas such as geography or music. It can be taught in two sequences each lasting two weeks, as illustrated below, or as a single 4-week unit. The teaching sequence is repeated but the texts read and the writing outcomes are different

Unit 3
Traditional and fairy stories
(4-5 weeks or 2-3 2 weeks)
This is the third of a block of four narrative units in Year 1. It builds on children's knowledge and experience from narrative units 1 and 2. The unit can be linked to many other curriculum areas. It is designed to be taught over four weeks or could be divided into two sequences (phases 1-3 and phases 4-6), each lasting two weeks.

Unit 4
Stories about fantasy worlds
(4 weeks or 2 x 2 weeks)
This is the last in a sequence of four narrative units in Year 1. The unit builds on children's prior experience of settings and traditional narrative structures in unit 1 and in unit 3 where they write their own adventure based on a well-known picture book. The unit has three phases using visual stimuli and small-world play to develop the written outcome. It can be linked to many other curriculum areas.

Unit 5
Recount (fact and fiction)
(2 weeks)
This is the last in a sequence of five non-fiction units for Year 1. It builds on children's knowledge and understanding from unit 3 and on cross-curricular work based on observations of the growth of a seed. The unit has three phases with oral and written outcomes and assessment opportunities for teachers and children at intervals throughout each phase. The outcome for the unit is children creating a stop-frame animation of the life cycle of a seed. Specific guidance for early reading and ongoing teaching of word, sentence and speaking and listening needs to be covered alongside this unit, informed by ongoing assessment for learning.

Unit 1
Traditional stories
(4 weeks)
This is the second of four narrative units in Year 2. The unit has two alternative outcomes. Children can work towards their own written version of a traditional narrative, or create a digital text combining words, images and sounds using presentation software. The unit can be linked to many other curriculum subjects or themes.

Unit 2
Traditional stories
(4 weeks)
This is the second of four narrative units in Year 2. The unit has two alternative outcomes. Children can work towards their own written version of a traditional narrative, or create a digital text combining words, images and sounds using presentation software. The unit can be linked to many other curriculum subjects or themes.

Unit 3
Different stories by the same author
(3 weeks)
This is the third of a block of four narrative units in Year 2. It builds on children’s knowledge and experience from units 1 and 2.

Unit 4
Extended stories/Significant authors
(3 weeks)
This is the final unit in a block of four narrative units in Year 2. It builds on children's experience and knowledge from the previous three units. Phases 1 and 2 are designed to run concurrently so that children hear an extended text read aloud while also having the opportunity to write a longer story themselves. This unit can be linked to many other curriculum subjects and themes.

Unit 1
Stories with familiar settings
(3 weeks)
This is the first of four narrative units in Year 3. Prior to teaching the unit, whole-class collections of stories with familiar settings could be established to support independent reading for pleasure. Texts could include films, comics, picture books and written texts. One particular text could be chosen as a class novel, so children experience how a narrative builds up over a period of time. This unit can be linked to other curriculum subjects or themes.

Unit 2
Myths, legends, fables, traditional tales
(4 weeks)
This is the second of four narrative units in Year 3. The unit builds on the use of setting and sequencing of narrative events leading to a resolution from unit 1 on stories with familiar settings. This unit can be linked to other curriculum subjects and themes.

Unit 3
Information texts
(4 weeks)
Overview
• Research a particular area (based on own interest or wider curriculum) using reference materials (books, IT sources). Use library classification systems to find books. Locate, read and note relevant information. Decide how to present information and make informed choices by using structures from different text types. Work collaboratively on an ICT-based presentation which includes different text types.
• Read and evaluate a wide range of simple persuasive texts, explaining and evaluating responses orally.
• Begin to use words, pictures and other communication modes to persuade others when appropriate to particular writing purpose.
• Through role-play and drama explore particular persuasive scenarios (e.g. a parent persuading a reluctant child to go to bed) and discuss the effectiveness of different strategies used.

Language play
(2 weeks)
Overview
• Read, discuss and analyse a range of poems that play with language. These could include puns, riddles, nonsense verse, cautionary poems, word games, word puzzles, etc. Provide opportunities for children to perform some of their favourite examples considering volume, pace, expression and the use of different voices. Play some poetry games with the children to generate nonsense phrases, unusual rhymes, unusual combinations of adjectives and nouns, etc.
• Select a particular form and, in shared composition with the children, build up a poem that follows a model seen in the examples read earlier.
• Children then work in pairs or groups to devise their own poems and write them on screen. They can then share these with the class, with other classes or, via email, with children in another school.

Unit 4
Authors and letters
(3 weeks)
This is the final unit in a block of four narrative units in Year 3. It builds on children's experience and knowledge from the previous units. The teaching sequence is divided into three phases and there are regular opportunities for oral and written outcomes and assessment opportunities. The unit can be linked to other curriculum subjects and themes.

Unit 5
Dialogue and plays
(4 weeks)
Overview
• Read and discuss stories, identifying the different characters and voices by using dramatised reading and puppets. Identify the features and conventions of written dialogue, demonstrate and then write dialogue. Compare this with a play based on the same story. Write and perform play scripts based on familiar stories.