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
| English Core Texts - Summer Term |
Jack and the Beanstalk – Mara Alperin
A Seed in Need – Sam Godwin
Mad About Minibeasts – Giles Andreae
Noisy Farm – Rod Campbell
Farmyard Hullabaloo – Giles Andreae
You Can’t take an Elephant on the Bus – Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Coming to England – Baroness Floella Benjamin
The Tiger who came to Tea – Judith Kerr
Little Rede Riding Hood – Mara Alperin
Class Two at the Zoo – Julia Jarman
Samson’s Titanic Journey – Lauren Graham
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch – Ronda Armitage
The Land of Neverbelieve – Norman Messenger
Where my Wellies Take Me… - Clare and Michael Morpurgo
Charlotte’s Webb – E.B White
Mary Anning: the Girl Who Cracked Open the World – Debora Pearson
The Land of Roar – Jenny McLachlan
Heard it in the Playground – Allan Ahlberg
The Witches – Roald Dahl
River Stories – Timothy Knapman
The Night Bus Hero – Onjali Q. Rauf
The lost words – Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
Mythologica – Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
Great Rivers of the World – Volker Mehnert
The Princess Blankets – Carol Ann Duffy
Black and British – David Olusoga
The Final Year – Matt Goodfellow
Hitler’s Canary – Sandi Toksvig
Shackleton’s Journey – William Grill
