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PRIMARY BOOK LIST

Y 1 T1
Text Range
Unit of work
  • Stories with Familiar Settings
  • Stories and rhymes with predictable and repetitive patterns
  • Signs, labels, captions and lists
  • Instructions
  • Traditional stories and rhymes AND fairy stories
  • Stories and poems from a range of cultures
  • Plays
  • Information Books (Non Chronological Reports)
  • Dictionaries
Y1 T3
Text Range
Unit of work
  • Stories about Fantasy World
  • Poems with patterned and predictable structures
  • Poems on similar themes
  • Information Texts
  • Recounts
Y2 T1
Text Range
Unit of Work
  • Instructions
  • Poetry and Stories with Familiar Settings
  • Traditional stories
  • Stories and poems from a range of other cultures
  • Stories and poems with predictable and patterned language
  • Poems by significant children's authors
  • Dictionaries AND Explanations
  • Stories by significant children's authors and Extended Stories
  • Different stories by the same author
  • Texts with language play
  • Information books
  • Non-chronological Reports

further information

Contact: English / Literacy Team
Tel: 0116 305 6337
or 0116 305 6455
Email: literacy@leics.gov.uk
Last Updated:
20 January 2004
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