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Manhajkeenna English waxaa lagu dhigaa macno wax ku ool ah, iyadoo ardayda la siinayo aqoon adag oo dhisan.
Units for Year 1
- 1Speaking and listening3 lessons
- 2Word class8 lessons
- 3Simple sentences7 lessons
- 4Writing lower case letters in print13 lessons
- 5Capital letters9 lessons
- 6Numerals 0-102 lessons
- 7'A Superhero Like You': reading and writing8 lessons
- 8'The Three Billy Goats Gruff': reading and writing8 lessons
- 9'The Magic Porridge Pot': reading and writing8 lessons
- 10Following and writing instructions to make a sandwich: reading and writing5 lessons
- 11Nursery rhymes: reading poetry5 lessons
- 12'Anna Hibiscus' Song': reading and writing10 lessons
- 13'The Three Little Pigs': reading and writing8 lessons
- 14Looking after pets: reading and writing10 lessons
- 15'Zim Zam Zoom' by James Carter: reading poetry5 lessons
- 16'Paddington': reading and writing10 lessons
- 17'Wild': reading and writing8 lessons
- 18'Jack and the Beanstalk': reading and writing9 lessons
- 19School trip: writing a recount5 lessons
- 20'Ada Twist Scientist': reading and writing5 lessons
- 21Speaking loud and proud4 lessons
Units for Year 2
- 1Compound sentences7 lessons
- 2Adverbial complex sentences5 lessons
- 3Apostrophes3 lessons
- 4Alternative GPCs for long vowels24 lessons
- 5Alternative GPCS for consonants and homophones18 lessons
- 6Suffixes18 lessons
- 7Lower case letters revision 4 lessons
- 8Pre-cursive lower case letters revision9 lessons
- 9The four joins10 lessons
- 10The four joins and break letters, with no lead-ins14 lessons
- 11Capital letters and numerals6 lessons
- 12Handwriting review, using lead-ins6 lessons
- 13Handwriting review, with no lead-ins6 lessons
- 14'Yoshi the Stonecutter': reading5 lessons
- 15'Otherwise': narrative writing10 lessons
- 16'The Wolf, The Duck and the Mouse': book club3 lessons
- 17Monster pizza: instructions writing6 lessons
- 18'The Planet in a Pickle Jar': book club3 lessons
- 19The Great Fire of London: non-chronological report9 lessons
- 20'The Proudest Blue': reading and writing8 lessons
- 21Atinuke and other authors: information text7 lessons
- 22'The Magic Box': reading imaginative poetry5 lessons
- 23Feelings vocabulary5 lessons
- 24Nocturnal animals: non-chronological report9 lessons
- 25'The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark': reading5 lessons
- 26School trip: recount writing3 lessons
- 27'Don't Cross the Line!': book club2 lessons
- 28'Lucky Dip': narrative writing10 lessons
- 29'And Tango Makes Three': book club2 lessons
- 30'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams': reading3 lessons
- 31Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole: non-chronological report7 lessons
- 32Florence Nightingale: diary writing5 lessons
- 33'The Children of Lir': reading5 lessons
- 34Humorous poetry6 lessons
- 35'Grandad's Island': book club3 lessons
- 36Spoken language: sharing your opinion3 lessons
- 37Sharing our opinions: agreeing and disagreeing3 lessons
- 38'Leaf': book club3 lessons
- 39Performance poetry7 lessons
Units for Year 3
- 1Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences8 lessons
- 2Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect5 lessons
- 3Speech first punctuation and apostrophes5 lessons
- 4Writing -ed and -ing suffixes12 lessons
- 5More suffixes and silent letters12 lessons
- 6Prefixes, homonyms and homophones14 lessons
- 7Further study of the four joins6 lessons
- 8Letter strings6 lessons
- 9Building fluency in silent letters, homophones, and common exception words6 lessons
- 10Character: big, beautiful and eye words6 lessons
- 11Character: small, confident and shy words6 lessons
- 12Character: clever and clumsy words4 lessons
- 13Developing reading preferences in year 34 lessons
- 14'Mulan': reading5 lessons
- 15'The BFG': reading and narrative writing12 lessons
- 16The Portia Spider: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 17Poet focus: 'Werewolf Club Rules' by Joseph Coelho10 lessons
- 18'The Man on the Moon': narrative writing12 lessons
- 19'Swallow's Kiss': book club2 lessons
- 20'The Pebble in my Pocket': reading5 lessons
- 21'The Moon Dragons': reading5 lessons
- 22Oral storytelling4 lessons
- 23'The Iron Man': reading5 lessons
- 24'The Iron Man': narrative writing10 lessons
- 25How Bees Make Honey: explanation text8 lessons
- 26'Anansi and the Antelope Baby': reading5 lessons
- 27'The Journey': diary writing8 lessons
- 28'The Sheep Pig': reading4 lessons
- 29'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx': book club2 lessons
- 30Healthy Lifestyle: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 31King Tut: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 32'Rushing Rivers': reading4 lessons
- 33Mummification: explanation text8 lessons
- 34'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and diary writing9 lessons
- 35'The Firework Maker's Daughter': reading and narrative writing12 lessons
- 36Poetry inspired by big and small objects: understanding form8 lessons
- 37'Varjak Paw': book club2 lessons
- 38The Stone Age: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 39'The Day the Crayons Quit': reading and writing persuasive letters8 lessons
- 40Introduction to speeches4 lessons
- 41Reading and performing scripts4 lessons
Units for Year 4
- 1Simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentences7 lessons
- 2Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation3 lessons
- 3Apostrophes and speech punctuation3 lessons
- 4Review of determiners, prepositions and fronted adverbials5 lessons
- 5Verb and adjective suffixes12 lessons
- 6Noun and adjective suffixes12 lessons
- 7Suffixes, etymology and homophones12 lessons
- 8Building fluency in the four joins, suffixes and common exception words6 lessons
- 9Weather: wind and hot words6 lessons
- 10Weather: cold, calm and stormy words6 lessons
- 11Weather: cloudy, dark and rainy words4 lessons
- 12Developing reading preferences in Year 44 lessons
- 13'Curious Creatures Glowing in the Dark': reading4 lessons
- 14Anglerfish: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 15'Hansel and Gretel': reading5 lessons
- 16'Little Red Riding Hood': journalistic report10 lessons
- 17'The Borrowers': narrative writing and reading11 lessons
- 18'A Christmas Carol': narrative writing and reading15 lessons
- 19'El Deafo': book club2 lessons
- 20'Walter Tull's Scrapbook': reading5 lessons
- 21'Into the Forest': diary writing8 lessons
- 22John Lyons poetry10 lessons
- 23Healthy eating adverts: persuasive writing8 lessons
- 24'A Journey through Greek Myths': reading5 lessons
- 25'Jabberwocky': narrative writing13 lessons
- 26The digestive system: explanation writing5 lessons
- 27'Escape from Pompeii': reading5 lessons
- 28Weather: descriptive writing7 lessons
- 29'The Wild Robot': book club2 lessons
- 30Ancient Greeks: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 31Anglo-Saxons: non-chronological report10 lessons
- 32'Arthur and the Golden Rope': reading6 lessons
- 33'The Happy Prince': narrative writing and reading10 lessons
- 34'Greenling': reading5 lessons
- 35'Whale Rider': narrative writing15 lessons
- 36Poetry inspired by weather12 lessons
- 37Speeches6 lessons
- 38'Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths': book club2 lessons
- 39'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane': book club2 lessons
- 40Getting ready to debate4 lessons
- 41Laura Mucha: performance poetry5 lessons
- 42Poet focus: 'Overheard in a Tower Block' by Jospeh Coelho5 lessons
Units for Year 5
- 1Five sentence types6 lessons
- 2Key grammar terminology, including determiners and fronted adverbials3 lessons
- 3Three tense forms and modal verbs5 lessons
- 4Speech punctuation, parenthesis and apostrophes4 lessons
- 5Verb, adjective and noun suffixes14 lessons
- 6Noun suffixes, letter strings and homophones12 lessons
- 7Etymology and prefixes12 lessons
- 8Building handwriting fluency through speed, choices and writing dialogue6 lessons
- 9Taste and smell words8 lessons
- 10Action words8 lessons
- 11Developing reading preferences in Year 54 lessons
- 12'How To Train Your Dragon': reading5 lessons
- 13'How to Train Your Dragon': diary and narrative writing16 lessons
- 14'Crazy about Cats': reading5 lessons
- 15The Aye-Aye: non-chronological report12 lessons
- 16Wild Cats: non-chronological report12 lessons
- 17The Titanic: journalistic report writing12 lessons
- 18Introduction to debate8 lessons
- 19'The Viewer': narrative writing8 lessons
- 20Poetry by Valerie Bloom5 lessons
- 21'The Unforgotten Coat': book club2 lessons
- 22'The Highwayman': narrative writing17 lessons
- 23Poetry about personal experiences5 lessons
- 24'The Listeners': reading5 lessons
- 25School uniform: persuasive letter writing10 lessons
- 26'Mirror': reading5 lessons
- 27Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': narrative and soliloquy writing17 lessons
- 28'Front Desk': book club2 lessons
- 29'Front Desk': persuasive letter writing12 lessons
- 30'Oliver Twist': reading5 lessons
- 31'Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover': reading5 lessons
- 32The Amazon Rainforest: essay writing7 lessons
- 33'Princess Sophia Duleep Singh: My Story': reading5 lessons
- 34Harriet Tubman: biographical writing8 lessons
- 35Poetry inspired by animals10 lessons
- 36'Wonder': book club2 lessons
- 37Successful speeches4 lessons
Units for Year 6
- 1Using five sentence types4 lessons
- 2Key terminology, including determiners, fronted adverbials and parenthesis4 lessons
- 3Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice4 lessons
- 4Punctuation8 lessons
- 5Review, including word class, sentence types, tense, commas and colons10 lessons
- 6Homophones and tense19 lessons
- 7Letter strings, etymology and curriculum words16 lessons
- 8Review and revision of all taught spelling3 lessons
- 9Building fluency with note taking, choice, quotations and emphasis6 lessons
- 10Emotions words8 lessons
- 11Setting words8 lessons
- 12Developing reading preferences in Year 64 lessons
- 13Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet': diary and narrative writing12 lessons
- 14'The Final Year': reading5 lessons
- 15'Sherlock Holmes': descriptive and letter writing16 lessons
- 16'Coming To England': reading5 lessons
- 17Debating important topics5 lessons
- 18Charles Darwin: biographical writing7 lessons
- 19Antarctic animals: non-chronological report12 lessons
- 20Pandas: non-chronological report12 lessons
- 21'Blackberry Blue': reading4 lessons
- 22'Girl of Ink and Stars': book club2 lessons
- 23'Shackleton's Journey': reading5 lessons
- 24Climate emergency: journalistic report writing9 lessons
- 25Poetry about migration5 lessons
- 26The Empire Windrush: diary writing6 lessons
- 27The Empire Windrush: essay writing6 lessons
- 28'Beowulf': reading7 lessons
- 29'Beowulf': narrative writing10 lessons
- 30'When Stars are Scattered': book club2 lessons
- 31'A Kind of Spark': reading5 lessons
- 32'A Kind of Spark': narrative writing15 lessons
- 33'When the Sky Falls': reading5 lessons
- 34'When the Sky Falls': narrative and journalistic report writing10 lessons
- 35Polar regions: essay writing7 lessons
- 36Poetry of place12 lessons
- 37Early Islamic civilisation: essay writing7 lessons
- 38'No Country' and 'Frizzy': graphic novels exploring identity and belonging7 lessons
- 39'Cloud Busting': book club2 lessons
- 40Talking transitions5 lessons
Units for Year 7
- 1The fundamentals of effective discussion4 lessons
- 2Step into the unknown: fiction reading and creative writing32 lessons
- 3'The Tempest'28 lessons
- 4Poetry about place and home14 lessons
- 5Sherlock Holmes: short stories22 lessons
- 6'The Twisted Tree': fiction reading32 lessons
- 7Dystopian settings: descriptive writing16 lessons
Units for Year 8
- 1Myths, legends and stories that inspire28 lessons
- 2'A Midsummer Night's Dream'28 lessons
- 3Participating in effective debates4 lessons
- 4Taking a stand14 lessons
- 5Single poet study: Maya Angelou20 lessons
- 6Victorian childhood: non-fiction reading and writing8 lessons
- 7A monster within: reading and writing Gothic fiction32 lessons
- 8Gothic poetry6 lessons
- 9A history of language8 lessons
Units for Year 9
- 1'Lord of the Flies'24 lessons
- 2Women's rights across the ages: non-fiction reading and writing25 lessons
- 3Malevolent characters: fiction writing10 lessons
- 4Literary perspectives from the First World War24 lessons
- 5Comparing poetry from the First World War11 lessons
- 6Creating and performing slam poetry4 lessons
- 7'Small Island'35 lessons
- 8'Othello'25 lessons
- 9Simon Armitage: writing your world10 lessons
Units for Year 10
- 1Animal Farm: the pigs and power26 lessons
- 2An Inspector Calls: power and responsibility16 lessons
- 3Leave Taking: a sense of belonging29 lessons
- 4Animal Farm: the pigs and power0 lessons
- 5Leave Taking: a sense of belonging0 lessons
- 6Macbeth: Lady Macbeth as a Machiavellian villain26 lessons
- 7Romeo and Juliet: exploring the role of love and fate16 lessons
- 8A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's redemption26 lessons
- 9Jekyll & Hyde: duality and evil26 lessons
- 10'Belonging'32 lessons
- 11'Conflict'32 lessons
- 12Poetry anthology (Assessment from summer 2027)33 lessons
- 13Poetry anthology (Assessment until summer 2026)36 lessons
- 14'Love and Relationships'31 lessons
- 15'Power and Conflict'19 lessons
- 16'World and Lives'32 lessons
- 17Non-fiction: crime and punishment12 lessons
- 18Fiction: read around the world17 lessons
- 19Spoken language: the language of change14 lessons
- 20Non-fiction: letter writing6 lessons
- 21Fiction: science fiction writing10 lessons
- 22Non-fiction: changing views18 lessons
- 23Fiction: ending stories8 lessons
Units for Year 11
- 1‘An Inspector Calls’: societal expectations of gender and class7 lessons
- 2Leave Taking: the power of education 7 lessons
- 3Animal Farm: barriers to leadership7 lessons
- 4Animal Farm: barriers to leadership0 lessons
- 5Leave Taking: The power of education0 lessons
- 6Macbeth: A Tragic Hero7 lessons
- 7Romeo and Juliet: the integral role of violence and honour to masculinity7 lessons
- 8A Christmas Carol: a ghost story7 lessons
- 9Jekyll & Hyde: the divided city7 lessons
- 10Love and relationships poetry continued12 lessons
- 11 Power and conflict poetry continued12 lessons
- 12World and lives poetry continued12 lessons
- 13Belonging poetry continued12 lessons
- 14Conflict poetry continued12 lessons
- 15Poetry anthology (Assessment from summer 2027)12 lessons
- 16Poetry anthology (Assessment until summer 2026)13 lessons
- 17Unseen poetry20 lessons
- 18Animal Farm: lies and deception7 lessons
- 19An Inspector Calls: perspectives on crime, justice and the role of the Inspector7 lessons
- 20Animal Farm: lies and deception0 lessons
- 21Leave Taking: an intersectional analysis7 lessons
- 22Leave Taking: an intersectional analysis0 lessons
- 23Macbeth and masculinity: the struggle for power7 lessons
- 24Romeo and Juliet: Juliet and female agency7 lessons
- 25A Christmas Carol: a Christian parable7 lessons
- 26Jekyll & Hyde: society as the villain7 lessons
- 27Spoken language masters: refining public speaking skills5 lessons
- 28Fiction: books that changed my world14 lessons
- 29Non-fiction: teenage kicks18 lessons
- 30Fiction: inner musings12 lessons
- 31Non-fiction: explorers8 lessons
- 32Writing masters10 lessons
- 33Macbeth: the role of guilt7 lessons
- 34Romeo and Juliet: the tragedy of societal expectations7 lessons
- 35‘Animal Farm’: language manipulation and control7 lessons
- 36‘An Inspector Calls’: Priestley’s theatrical strategy; politics, genre, and form7 lessons
- 37‘Animal Farm’: language manipulation and control0 lessons
- 38'Leave Taking': setting, structure and stagecraft7 lessons
- 39'Leave Taking': setting, structure and stagecraft0 lessons
- 40‘A Christmas Carol’: a critique of Victorian values7 lessons
- 41'Jekyll & Hyde': the dark side of the Industrial Revolution7 lessons