Talavera Infant School

Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year R All About Me Let’s

Celebrate

Once Upon a

Time

Make and Bake Into the

Woods

Growing and

Changing

Other Supporting

Texts:

Nursery Rhymes

Rhyming stories by

Julia

Donaldson

Walking Through the

Jungle

Rumble in the Jungle

Pumpkin Soup

Other Supporting

Texts:

Firework poems

Whatever Next!

Aliens Love

Underpants

Dinosaur Roar

The Nativity story

Winter stories

Stick Man

Other Supporting

Texts:

Traditional Tales

including

Three Little Pigs, Little

Red

Riding Hood, Goldilocks

and the Three Bears,

Jack

and the Beanstalk and

Hansel and Gretal.

Other Supporting

Texts:

The Big Pancake

Recipe books

Dora’s Eggs

Dora’s Chicks

Sing a song of

sixpence, Hot Cross

Buns and Pat-a-cake

Other Supporting

Texts:

The Owl who was

afraid of the dark.

Peace at Last.

Can’t you sleep Little

Bear?

The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo’s Child

Other Supporting Texts: Oliver’s Vegetables

Handa’s Surprise

Supertato

The Very Hungry

Caterpillar

Superworm

The Very tiny seed.

Poems

A Little Seed

The Caterpillar - Twinkl

EYFS Talking about different

families.

Finding out about

themselves and their

body parts.

Learning about

birthdays and pets.

Talking about,

describing

and sharing

experiences of

Bonfire Night.

Listening to firework

poems.

Learning the story of

We’re

Learning the story of

The

Billy Goats Gruff by

heart using actions.

Sequencing the story

from beginning to

middle to end by

drawing a ‘story

bridge’.

Learning the story of

The Gingerbread Man

and creating story

maps.

Innovating the story

by changing the ending

draw and orally retell.

Learning the story of

Owl

Babies using key

story language and

actions.

Creating story maps

to show the story

order.

Learning the story of The

Enormous Turnip by heart

using actions.

Using the story format to

create their own stories.

Following instructions

about how to plant a seed.

Writing instructions for

others to plant a seed.

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Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

Listening Lola to

encourage listening and

attention skills.

Phase 1 Phonics – rhyme

and alliteration.

Begin Phase 2 phonics

single letter sounds.

Reading books and

diaries sent home.

Learning the story of

Brown Bear by heart

and with actions.

Story mapping.

Using a jungle animal to

change the story by

adding a new character.

Going on a Bear Hunt

with actions.

Innovating the story

by going on a dinosaur

hunt.

Designing our own

dinosaurs and writing

describing words.

Talking about and

sharing different

celebrations the

children may have at

home.

Learning about the

celebration of

Christmas.

Writing Christmas

card inserts with a

focus on name

writing.

Introducing

Helicopter stories.

Phase 2 phonics.

Innovating the story by

changing the

characters and orally

retelling their own

version of the story.

Creating a ‘Wanted’

poster for the troll by

writing a simple

sentence about him.

Learning about Chinese

New Year.

Learning about

different farm animals

other than goats.

Continue to develop

Helicopter Stories.

Phase 3 phonics

Write a sentence to

match the new story

ending.

Reading and following

a gingerbread man

recipe – describe how

it tasted.

Begin to think about

Easter and New Life.

Use the stories of

Dora’s Eggs and Dora’s

Chicks to support

independent writing

and story retelling.

Phase 3 phonics

Retelling the story

orally and written.

Innovate the story by

changing the

character to a

different woodland

animal.

Read and share non-

fiction books about

owls and create zig

zag books about

them.

Introduce the story

of The Gruffalo in

readiness for out

school trip to The

Gordon Brown Centre.

Use the school trip as

a focus for

independent

writing – recount of

the day and letter of

thanks to the

Gordon Brown Centre.

Phase 4 phonics

Creating their own super

veggie and describing using

simple sentences.

Using their new super

veggie character in their

own story.

Talking about life cycles

and having the opportunity

to create a life cycle fact

book.

Learning about different

bugs and writing ‘Under the

leaf’ riddles.

Phase 3 and 4 phonic

revision.

Talavera Infant School

Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year 1 Can you build

another me?

Talavera by

Night

Home Sweet

Home

Long Long Ago Food Glorious

Food

Commotion in the

Ocean

Other Supporting

Texts:

Going on a Bear Hunt

Incredible me!

No Difference Between

Us

Other Supporting

Texts:

A Dark Dark Tale

Handa’s Noisy Night

Night Monkey Day

Monkey

The Owl that was

afraid of the dark

Non-fiction texts

Poems

Christmas poems

Other Supporting

Texts:

Traditional Tales:

Little Red Hen

Mr Wolf and the

Enormous Turnip

Mr Wolf and the Three

Bears

What’s the time Mr

Wolf?

The Egg and the

Chicken

Poems

The owl and the

pussycat

Other Supporting

Texts:

Traditional Tales:

Cinderella

Snow White

Princess and the Pea

The Queen’s Hat

The Royal Nappy

The Empty Pot

Other Supporting

Texts:

Tidy

One Plastic Bag

The Squirrels that

Squabble

Extracts from

Samuel Pepys Diary

Other Supporting Texts:

Is it a Mermaid?

A Snail and the Whale

Tiddler

Bright Stanley

Sharing a Shell

The Storm Whale

Billy’s Bucket

PIE (D) Purpose- to inform

Form- Fact File Booklet

(Can you Build Another

Me?)

Purpose- to entertain

Form- Narrative (You

Choose)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Narrative

story/retell

(It was a Cold Dark

Night)

Purpose- To inform

Form- Fact file

Purpose- To entertain

Form- narrative

story/innovate

(The Three Little Pigs)

Purpose- To inform

Form- instructions (Mr

Wolf’s Pancakes)

Purpose- To inform

Form- information

guide

(The Queen’s Knickers)

Purpose- To inform

Form- Fact File

(Castles)

Purpose- To inform

Form- postcard

(Toby and the Great

Fire of London)

Purpose- To persuade

Form- letter

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Poem

(Commotion in the Ocean)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Narrative/Story

(Something Fishy)

Talavera Infant School

Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

(It was a Cold Dark

Night)

(The Disgusting

Sandwich)

Skills

linked

to the

NC

Can you build another

me?

To orally rehearse what

they want to write

Segmenting words

Writing common

exception words

Full stops and capital

letters

Finger spaces

Sentence structure

Starting sentences

with I

You choose

Story language

Full stops and capital

letters

Finger spaces

Sentence structure

It was a cold dark

night

To orally rehearse

what they want to

write

Segmenting words

To use and to join

words

To use ing

Ed

My our

2nd outcome

Using phonics taught

to read words

Begin to use a

question mark

Adjective

The Three Little Pigs

-s or –es

Use of and to join

clauses

nouns

Introduce noun phrases

Mr Wolf’s Pancakes

Time adverbials

Imperative verbs

Instruction language

and structure

Revisit ed suffix

The Queen’s Knickers

Speech bubbles

Revisit Noun phrases

To use and to connect

clauses

Suffix ing

Verbs

Castles

Prepositions

Ed

And

Noun phrases

Contractions

Adjectives

Toby and the great

fire of London

Past tense ed

Headings

Adjectives

The disgusting

sandwich

Noun phrase

Debate

Un-

Er est

Prepositions

And because so

Commotion in the Ocean

Rhyming

Prepositions

Er est

Noun phrases

Something fishy

S es

Exclamation marks

Question marks

Talavera Infant School

Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year 2 Who’s Afraid of

the Big Bad

Wolf?

Out of this

World

Save Our Planet Dangerous

Dragons

We Could Be

Heroes

Big Friendly Giants

Other Supporting

Texts: The Three Little Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood

Whose afraid of the big book

Mr BB wolf versus Miss RR

Hood (short text)

Other Supporting

Texts: Sophia’s Dream

Beegu

Elisa and the Moonchild

Space Non-fiction texts

Poems:

Solar Systems in Motion

guided reading driver

Other Supporting

Texts: The Lorax The Gruffalo

Bear Hunt

guided reading driver

Other Supporting

Texts: How dinosaurs really work

Zog

guided reading driver

Other Supporting

Texts:

Extracts from Toy story

Children’s comic Books

Other Supporting Texts:

Georges Marvellous Medicine

James and the Giant Peach

Matilda

PIE (D) Purpose- to entertain

Form- innovate the

story the Boy who cried

wolf.

(The Boy who Cried

Wolf)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Poem- Ten things

found in a wolf’s

pocket.

Purpose- to entertain

Purpose- To inform

Form- Fact file about

a planet

(The man on the

moon)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Thank you

letter from the alien

to the boy)

(The way back home)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- comparative

description of the Tin

Forests

(The Tin Forest)

Purpose- To persuade

Form- letter to Pete

the Badger on how to

keep the forest tidy.

(Tidy)

Purpose- To inform

Form- instructions

(The Dragon Machine)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Story predicting

what comes next.

(The Egg)

Purpose- To persuade

Form- reply to a job

application

/persuasive letter

(Juniper Jupiter)

Purpose- To Entertain

Form- An adventure

from the viewpoint of

the sidekick

(Claude)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- friendship potion

poem

(The BFG)

Purpose- To entertain

Form- Creating a narrative

passage about Sophie being

taken from the giant

(The BFG)

Purpose- To inform

Talavera Infant School

Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

Form- diary from the

viewpoint of the wolf.

(The True Story of the

Three Little Pigs)

Form- informative posters

all about themselves for

Year 3

(Can you build another me?)

Skills

linked

to the

NC

The Boy Who Cried

Wolf

Innovate

Expanded noun phrases

Conjunctions and or but

Use of ly

Narrative story

structure

The True Story of the

Three Little Pig

Use of ed (revisit skill

from Year 1) apply

rules – new learning

Short exclamations

Build on work using

conjunctions.

Layout

Man on the Moon

text

Expanded noun –

revisit in the focus of

non-fiction

Coordinating

conjunctions e.g. and

but or in a more

complex way i.e.

Saturn is blue and

white.

Saturn is blue but it

has a white ring

around the outside.

The use of question

marks – who why what

when and how.

Layout structure

Specific language

linked to non-fiction

The Way Back Home

Contractions- didn’t

revisit year 1

Commas in a list

Exclamation

sentences.

Tin Forest

Full less suffixes

Subordinating clauses

Describing language-

using adventurous

language

Tidy

Letter structure

Letter vocab

er est (revisit Year 1

and apply new rules)

Commands using

imperative verbs (Build

on Year 1s use of

imperative verbs)

Adverbials

The dragon machine

Factual expanded noun

phrases

Revisit subordinating

conjunctions

To use different

pronouns

The Egg

Imitation of pre-

written sentences

Possessive ‘

Commas in a list

Brief recount on

finding the egg.

Juniper Jupiter

subordinating

conjunctions

full less ness ly ment

suffixes

revisit

Possessive ‘

Different types of

sentences

Statement

Question

Exclamation

Command

Claude

Pronouns

Adverbials

Viewpoint

BFG – 1st outcome

Adverbials

subordinating conjunctions

imperative verbs

numbers

BFG 2nd Outcome

Story language

Past and present tense

Suffixes

Adverbials

Can you build another me?

Factual structure language

Fact file

PIE (D) – Persuade, Inform, Entertain (discuss)

Talavera Infant School

Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

The Five Challenges of Reading

At Talavera Infant School we believe the following Spines are important to expose our children to over the 3 years

they attend our school:

1- Traditional Tales – Heritage texts

We believe that children need to have exposure of a wide range of Traditional Tales that they learn to retell. As author

Goddard Blythe says. ... The characters might be unfamiliar to the child but the problems and the feelings that are

dealt with are themselves often very true to life. It also introduces children to story structure- characters and settings.

2- Introduction of different cultures and heritages.

As outlined on our curriculum map we believe that celebrating different cultures and diversity amongst our own

children within Talavera Infant School is important as our children will see children ‘like themselves’ that represents

the wider world.

3- Complexity of narrator

Children are introduced to the idea of different viewpoints and begin to debate their opinion which may differ from

others point of view. An example of this is, in Year 1 children learn the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and in Year 2 the

children review the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ but then focus their learning on the key text ‘The True Story of the

Three Little Pigs.’

4- Poetry

Children are introduced to poetry and they learn to recite poems by heart throughout their journey through the

school.

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Key Texts Drivers and Progression Document

5- Good citizens

Children are introduced to texts that address or provide opportunities for conversations that have a wider impact on

global issues. It is important to instil the British Core Values as well as environmental issues into the children as this

will have a positive impact on the people that they will become in the future and allow them to have a viewpoint on

how to improve our world. An example of this is when Year 1 use the text – ‘The Disgusting Sandwich’ and link text

‘Tidy’. The children then visit different parks in their local community and write a letter to the local council asking

them to help improve their parks to stop them being untidy and safer. During their learning the children address

environmental issues such as recycling.

The children also relate their learning to the school’s behaviour awards – being a good citizen.