English Core Texts
Here are our Core Texts which are used in English lessons. These texts are carefully chosen to support the children's development in Reading, Writing and Oracy.
English Core Texts - Autumn Term |
Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly – Nick Sharratt & Sue Heap
The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Birthday Party – Eric Carle
Owl Babies – Martin Waddell
The Colour Monster – Anna Llenas
The Gingerbread Man – Marla Alperin
Big Book of Nursery Rhymes – Felicity Brooks
The Best Diwali Ever - Sonali Shah
Leaf Man – Lois Ehlert
The Three Little Pigs – Mara Alpherin
The Nativity Story – Juliet David
Dear Santa – Rod Campbell
This is ME! - George Webster
“NOT THAT PET!” – Smriti Halls
The Three Little Pigs – Twinkl
Children’s HISTORY of LEICESTER – Rosalind Adam
ZIM ZAM ZOOM! – James Carter
Peace at Last – Jill Murphy
A Letter to Santa – Shawn Hudson
There’s a Monster in your Book – Tom Fletcher
Marshmallows – Various Authors (This is an online clip that the children write their own words to)
Morris the Mankiest Monster – Giles Andreae
24 Hours in Antarctica – Andy Prentice
The Elves and the Shoemaker – Ladybird and Lorna Read
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark – Jill Tomlinson
Earth Shattering Events: Volcanoes, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis and other natural disasters – Robin Jacobs
The Invisible – Tom Percival
Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems – Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson
Stone Age Boy – Satoshi Kitamura
Varjak Paw – SF Said
A Day I the Life of a Caveman, a Queen and Everything In Between: History as You’ve Never Seen It Before – Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley
The Explorer – Katherine Rundell
The Children’s Book of Richard III – Rosalind Adam
The Lost Happy Endings – Carol Ann Duffy
When Life Gives You Mangoes – Kereen Getten
The Wolf’s Secret – Nicolas Digard and Myriam Dahman
Fire Burn, Caildron Bubble: Maical Poems – Paul Cookson
Cornelia and the Jungle Machine – Nora Brech
Atlas of Adventures – Rachel Williams and Lucy Letherland
Kensuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo
HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World – Katherine Halligan
Rumaysa: A Fairytale – Radiya Hafiza
The Rhythm of the Rain – Grahame Baker-Smith
The Highwayman – Alfred Noyes
Where Once we Stood – Christopher Riley
On the Origin of Species – Sabina Radeva
Leon and the Place Between – Angela Mcallister and Grahame Baker-Smith
The Giant’s Necklace – Michael Morpurgo
The Lost Spells – Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
The Man who Walked Between the Towers – Mordicai Gerstein
The Wonder Garden – Jenny Broom
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
English Core Texts - Spring Term |
The Three Billy Goats Gruff – Mara Alpherin
Grow Strong!: A Book About Healthy Habits – Cheri J Meiners
One Snowy Night – Nick Butterworth
The Fish Who Could Wish – John Bush
Fireman Sam’s Animal Rescues!
The Little Red Hen - Ronne Randall
Peepo! – Janet and Allen Ahlberg
A Poem For Every Winter Day – Allie Esiri
HANDA’S SURPRISE – Eileen Browne
Lost in the Toy Museum – David Lucas
In My Mosque – M. o. Yuksel
Aliens Love Underpants – Clare Freeman
Room on the Broom – Julia Donaldson
The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
Hermelin: The Detective Mouse – Mini Grey
Tell me a Dragon – Jackie Morris
The Twits – Roald Dahl
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster – Gill Lewis
Werewolf Club Rules!: and other poems – Joseph Coelho
Egyptology – Dugald Sterr
It’s Too Frightening for Me! – Shirley Hughes
The Street Beneath My Feet – Charlotte Guillain
A Necklace of Raindrops – Joan Aiken
The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
You Wouldn’t Want To Be A Roman Soldier! – David Stewart
The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems – Brian Moses
Magic of Callaloo – Trish Cooke
Poo – Nicola Davies and Neal Layton
The Land of Roar – Jenny McLachlan
The Sleep and the Spindle – Neil Gaiman
The Way of Dog – Zana Fraillon
The Night Bus Hero – Onjali Q. Raúf
Survivors – David Long
Journey to the River Sea – Eva Ibbotson
The Lost Book of Adventure from the notebooks of the Unknown Adventurer – Unknown Adventurer (Author) Teddy Keen (Editor)
A Story Like the Wind – Gill Lewis
Everest – Alexandra Stewart