Each year group has been allocated letters, letter strings or words that are in line with year group objectives and following the NC objectives and guidance from The Writing Framework July 2025. Each week of each half term from F2 to year 6 has been allocated letter, letter strings of words daily. F2 begins without the lead ins for cursive as recommended. The lead ins are introduced in year 2 if the children are ready. By year 3 they are joining writing the year 3/4 spelling lists before year 5 & 6 take on the year 5/6 words.

Worksheets and suggested activities to support reading and writing based on Michael Morpurgo’s The Giant’s Necklace. Includes a vanishing cloze, comprehension questions, character profiling etc.

The Wonder Garden - resources to support descriptive writing linked to YR6 objectives Resources include: PowerPoint for Vanishing Cloze PowerPoint to analyse powerful openings Word doc for synonymous phrases Word doc of boxed up plan for descriptive write Word doc of hypenated word bank Word doc of Dictogloss examples to teach colon and semi-colon. All activiteis linked to Year 6 Writing Objectives

Resources to support writing based on Marcus Sedgwick’s Floodland Resources include: Annontated example text ‘Message in a Bottle’ Discussion statements Plan for a message in a bottle Diary entry example Writing sequence Questions for Zoe