Year 1 English Scheme of Work
WEEK GRAMMAR READING
1 Alphabet: Capital letters and
lower case letters.
Alphabetical order
2 Greetings for different times
of the day (adults and
children)
3 Common Nouns & Proper
Nouns
4 Doing Words: Verbs
5 Singular and Plural (s, and -
es)
6 Using articles (a, an, the)
with nouns
7
8 Describing Words: colours,
numbers and shapes,
character and quality
9 Comma and Question Marks
10 Sequence words (first, soon,
now, then)
11 Animals and their young
ones: sheep, lamb, cat, kitten,
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First Term
A short story identifying and
comparing two characters.
A passage involving greeting
adults and children.
Comprehension passage:
identify naming words in a
selected passage.
A poem: listen, read and discuss
for meaning
Read a story (beginning, middle
and end)
Read and explain the features of
a recipe
Read, understand and answer
questions from a traditional
rhyme.
Read and discuss a fiction and
identify the different characters
in the story
Read a short narrative and
discuss the moral of the story
Read a given text and explain
clearly the understanding of
what is read.
WRITING
Write letters of the alphabet in
order.
Write sentences with greetings:
with capitalization and full stop
Write sentences using naming
words (objects, places, names,
etc.) Capitalization & full stop
Draw a picture of your friends
face and label it.
Write a sequence of sentences
with illustrations to form a
story.
Write a simple recipe in
numbered steps: e.g. how to
make a cup of tea.
HALF TERM
Write sentences to describe
nouns using colours, numbers,
character and quality
Write sentences with capital
letters, comma and full stop
Write sequence sentences to
form short narratives using:
first, soon, now and then.
Write descriptive sentences
about My Self
SPEAKING & LISTENING
Introducing and talking about
myself:
My name is/Im John and I.
Greeting and asking anothers
name: whats your name?
Asking Permission: May I.
May we..
Making Requests: Can I
Can we. Can you.
Re-telling a story to a classmate
Talking about what I do every
morning: when I wake up.
Recite a selected range of
traditional rhymes.
Asking and answering questions
about a character from a story
Practice sentences with an
exclamation and show the
exclamation mark on the board:
e.g. I love ice cream!
Describe animals and their
young from pictures
SPELLING/VOCABULARY
CVC a sounds eg can, pan, bag, sad
CVC e sounds pen, leg, net
Punctuation, Collins
CVC short i sounds being, bin, sit
CVC short o sounds pot, cot, lot
Recite a poem and talk about it
Plural Nouns(s, es, ies and ves)
CVC long i: words meet, seat, beat
Grammar and
CVC ai, rain, pain, train
CVC ay tray, lay,
-ing words ie sleeping, cooking,
eating etc
Words that begin with bl, cl, fl, gl,
pl and sl.
REFERENCE
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Letts English; Collins
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
Collins Grammar and
Punctuation, Collins
Phonics and Spelling
 dog, puppy, pig, piglet, cow,
calf, goose, gosling, etc.
12 Words with contraction: Read and perform a simple Read write and perform a Recite a poem about animals or
cant, Im, shes, hes poem simple poem birds.
13 Examination

14 Exam/Closing

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