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Hazel Community Primary School

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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