Year 1 English / Literacy Long Term Plan

Year 1 English Long Term Plan – Book Based Curriculum

This Year 1 English Long Term Plan provides a carefully sequenced, literature-based curriculum designed to develop reading, writing, grammar and speaking skills across the academic year.

The curriculum is built around high-quality children’s literature, allowing pupils to explore stories, poetry and non-fiction while developing key literacy skills through meaningful discussion and purposeful writing outcomes.

Each unit includes clear learning focuses for reading, writing, grammar, speaking and listening, making the document easy for teachers to use when planning lessons or mapping curriculum coverage.

The plan provides progression across the year, moving from simple sentence construction and prediction skills in the Autumn term to narrative writing, poetry and non-fiction writing by the Summer term.

This resource is ideal for Year 1 teachers, subject leaders and schools looking for a structured English curriculum based on engaging texts.

Included in this resource

• Full Year 1 English long term plan
• Book-based curriculum covering the whole year
• Clear progression in reading, writing and grammar
• Writing outcomes for every unit
• Speaking and listening opportunities embedded throughout
• Cross-curricular links included
• Coverage of Year 1 National Curriculum objectives