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We follow the Read Write Inc programme for phonics.

Year 1

Autumn 1

The Bog Baby

By Jeanne Willis

Autumn 2

Lost and Found

By Oliver Jeffers

Spring 1

Dogger

By Shirley Hughes

Spring 2

Beegu

By Alexis Deacon

Summer 1

The Naughty Bus

By Jan and Jerry Oke

Summer 2

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter 

The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett 

Year 2

Autumn 1

Paddington at the Palace by Michael Bond

Katie in London by James Mayhew

Autumn 2

The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear

Traction Man by Mini Grey

Spring 1

Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram

One Giant leap by Don Brown

Spring 2

Wild by Emily Hughes

Out and About by Shirley Hughes

Poem: The Grass House by Shirley Hughes

Summer 1

Leather Shoe Charlie by Gyeong-hwa Kim

Daisy Saves the Day by Shirley Hughes

Summer 2

Lila and the Secret of Rain by David Conway and Jude Dal

Year 3

Autumn 1

Orion and the Dark

By Emma Yarlett, 

Poem – The Sound Collector

Autumn 2

The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson

Poem: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear

Spring 1

Stone Age Boy – By Satoshi Kitamura, 

The First Drawing By Modicai Gerstein,

The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler

Spring 2

Alice in Wonderland – by Lewis Carroll

(Abridged version by Emma Chichister Clark)

Summer 1

The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Phillip Pullman, 

Poem: Fireworks by James Reeves

Summer 2

The Flower by John Light

What is Pink? – by Christina Rosetti

A Child’s Garden – by Michael Foreman

Year 4

Autumn 1

The Incredible Book Eating Boy

By Oliver Jeffers

Autumn 2

Egyptian Cinderella

By Shirley Climo

Spring 1

Escape from Pompeii

By Christina Balit

Spring 2

Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona By Richard Platt

Summer 1

The Wind in the Willows by  Kenneth Grahame

Poem: The River

Summer 2

The Promise by Nicola Davies

Poem: My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear

Year 5

Autumn 1

Leon and the place between by Angela McAllister

Poem: The Magic Box by Kit Wright

Autumn 2

Who let the Gods out? By Maz Evans

Spring 1

Journey to Jo’burg  by Beverley Naidoo

Who was Nelson Mandela? By Meg Belviso

Spring 2

Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

Summer 1

The man who walked between two towers 

By Mordicai Gerstein

Poem: If by Rudyard Kipling

Summer 2

The Nowhere Emporium

By Ross MacKenzie

Year 6

Autumn 1

Wonder 

By RJ Palacio

Autumn 2

Wonder and MacBeth

By Shakespeare

Spring 1

Trash

By Andy Mulligan

Spring 2

Trash By Andy Mulligan

Barefoot Book of Earth Poems by Judith Nicholls

Summer 1

Holes 

By Louis Sacher

Summer 2

Tales from Arabian Nights

By Andrew Lang

Poem: The Door  – byMiroslav Holub