Year 1 English Scheme of Work for First Term

WEEK

Year 1 English Scheme of Work GRAMMAR

First Term READING

WRITING

SPEAKING & LISTENING

SPELLING/VOCABULARY

REFERENCE

1

Alphabet: Capital letters and lower case letters. Alphabetical order

A short story identifying and comparing two characters.

Write letters of the alphabet in order.

Introducing and talking about myself: My name is/I’m John and I….

CVC a sounds eg can, pan, bag, sad

Collins Grammar Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

2

Greetings for different times of the day (adults and children)

A passage involving greeting adults and children.

Write sentences with greetings: with capitalization and full stop

Greeting and asking another’s name: ‘what’s your name?’

CVC e sounds pen, leg, net

Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

3

Common Nouns & Proper  Nouns

CVC short i sounds being, bin, sit

Doing Words: Verbs

Write sentences using naming words (objects, places, names, etc.) Capitalization & full stop Draw a picture of your friend’s face and label it.

Asking Permission: May I…. May we…..

4

Comprehension passage: identify naming words in a selected passage. A poem: listen, read and discuss for meaning

Making Requests: Can I… Can we…. Can you….

CVC short o sounds pot, cot, lot Recite a poem and talk about it

5

Singular and Plural (s, and es)

Read a story (beginning, middle and end)

Write a sequence of sentences with illustrations to form a story.

Re-telling a story to a classmate

Plural Nouns(s, es, ies and ves)

Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

6

Using articles (a, an, the) with nouns

Read and explain the features of a recipe

Write a simple recipe in numbered steps: e.g. how to make a cup of tea.

Talking about what I do every morning: ‘when I wake up….’

CVC long i: words meet, seat, beat

Letts English; Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

7 HALF TERM 8

Describing Words: colours, numbers and shapes, character and quality

Read, understand and answer questions from a traditional rhyme.

Write sentences to describe nouns using colours, numbers, character and quality

Recite a selected range of traditional rhymes.

CVC ai, rain, pain, train

Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

9

Comma and Question Marks

Read and discuss a fiction and identify the different characters in the story

Write sentences with capital letters, comma and full stop

Asking and answering questions about a character from a story

CVC ay tray, lay,

Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

10

Sequence words (first, soon, now, then)

Read a short narrative and discuss the moral of the story

Write sequence sentences to form short narratives using: first, soon, now and then.

-ing words ie sleeping, cooking, eating etc

Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

11

Animals and their young ones: sheep, lamb, cat, kitten,

Read a given text and explain clearly the understanding of what is read.

Write descriptive sentences about “My Self

Practice sentences with an exclamation and show the exclamation mark on the board: e.g. ‘I love ice cream!’ Describe animals and their young from pictures

Words that begin with bl, cl, fl, gl,  pl and sl.

Collins Grammar and Punctuation, Collins Phonics and Spelling

dog, puppy, pig, piglet, cow, calf, goose, gosling, etc. 12 13

Words with contraction: can’t, I’m, she’s, he’s Examination

14

Exam/Closing

Read and perform a simple  poem

Read write and perform a simple poem

Recite a poem about animals or  birds.