Across the year, children learn to write a variety of text types as shown by the writing outcomes overview for Year 1-6.

The following shows the breakdown within individual year groups:

Writing Units

Year 1:

• Writing simple sentences
• Book study - character descriptions & setting descriptions
• Instructional writing
• Recounts
• Information books (cross-curricular link to Science)
• Reciting and creating poetry
• Author study
• Statements and questions
• Fantasy stories
• Fairy tales

Year 2:

• Dictionary work
• Instructional writing
• Recounts
• Harvest walk (cross curricular link)
• Rhyming poems - knowing poems by heart
• Traditional stories
• Stories from other cultures
• Author study
• Writing poems that rhyme
• Explanations
• Finding facts
• Shape poems
• Letter writing
• Information texts

Year 3:

• Words and meanings
• Author study - Roald Dahl
• Report Writing
• Playscripts
• Adventure and mystery
• Instructions
• Rhyming couplets
• Information texts
• Legends
• Poetry by heart
• Exciting writing

Year 4:

• Recounts
• Fables
• Stories set in imaginary worlds
• Explanation texts
• Persuasive writing - advertising
• Formal letter writing
• Stories from other cultures
• Author study
• Knowing and performing narrative poetry
• Persuasive letter writing
• Poetry - Kennings and Clerihews
• Exciting writing

Year 5:

• Instructional writing
• Information texts (cross curricular link to Geography)
• Myths and legends
• Play scripts
• Persuasive writing
• Narrative suspense stories
• Author study - Michael Morpurgo
• Film narrative
• Poetry with similes and metaphors
• Performance poetry
• Exciting writing

Year 6:

• Instructional writing
• Descriptive writing
• Information texts
• Letter writing
• Author study
• Formal narrative
• Diary writing
• Short stories
• Instructional writing
• Biographical writing
• Balance argument
• Leaflets
• Descriptive writing
• Persuasive letter
• Journalistic writing
• Diary writing
• Report writing
• Letter writing
• Descriptive and poetic writing
• Instructional writing
• Formal narrative
• Short stories