Writing Magic Spells - The Complete Series (5 lessons)

Download a free overview to support your teaching of this scheme of work.

Download a free, editable assessment grid to support your teaching of this scheme of work.

• apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words
• read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught
• read other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs

• being encouraged to link what they read or hear read to their own experiences
• learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart
• drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
• checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading
• participate in discussion about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say

• sit correctly at a table, holding a pencil comfortably and correctly

• words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught

• saying out loud what they are going to write about
• composing a sentence orally before writing it
• re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
• discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
• read aloud their writing clearly enough to be heard by their peers and the teacher

• leaving spaces between words

• How words can combine to make sentences
• Joining words and joining clauses using and
• Separation of words with spaces
• Introduction to capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks to demarcate sentences
• Capital letters for names and for the personal pronoun I
• letter, capital letter
• word, singular, plural
• sentence
• punctuation, full stop, question mark, exclamation mark

• listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
• maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments
• speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of Standard English
• participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play/improvisations and debates
• gain, maintain and monitor the interest of the listener(s)