Year 1 English

Unit 1: Speaking & Listening

1. Asking and answering questions
2. Giving and following instructions
3. Retelling a story

Unit 2: Word class

1. Nouns: common and proper
2. Nouns: singular and plural
3. Adjectives: to describe
4. Adjectives: to compare
5. Adjectives: expanded noun phrases
6. Verbs: doing words
7. Verbs: doing and being verbs
8. Adverbs

Unit 3: Simple sentences

1. Present tense
2. Past tense including fronted adverbial of time
3. Past and present tense
4. Statements and questions
5. Questions and commands
6. Joining using and
7. Co-ordination with 'and'

Unit 4: Writing lowercase letters in print

1. Introduction to skills and patterns
2. Formation of i, l and t (handwriting)
3. Formation of u, y and j (handwriting)
4. Formation of m, n and r (handwriting)
5. Formation of h and k (handwriting)
6. Formation of b and p (handwriting)
7. Formation of c, a and d (handwriting)
8. Formation of o, g and q (handwriting)
9. Formation of e, s and f (handwriting)
10. Formation of v, w, x and z (handwriting)
11. Practice of x-height letters
12. Practice of letters with descenders
13. Practice of letters with ascenders

Unit 5: Capital letters

1. Formation of C, G, O and Q (handwriting)
2. Formation of M, N, W and V (handwriting)
3. Formation of B, D, P and R (handwriting)
4. Formation of I, E, F and L (handwriting)
5. Formation of A, K, H and T (handwriting)
6. Formation of S, J and U (handwriting)
7. Formation of X, Y and Z (handwriting)
8. Practice of capital letters and days of the week
9. Matching lower case letters with their capital letters

Unit 6: Numerals 0-10

1. Formation of numerals 0-5
2. Formation of numerals 6-10 (term 2, week 3, lesson 1)

Unit 7: 'A Superhero Like You': Reading & Writing

1. Exploring the idea of a superhero and predicting