Year 1 English Bundles

All bundles have 12 months access from date of purchase and details of 'Common Tricky Word' and 'homophone' spellings.

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Unless there is only one tutorial, each bundle (excluding genre writing) will have an ‘end-of-topic’ assessment. You may like to complete this at the start and end of the bundle to see how much your child has grown in confidence and ability.

Tutorials are all taken from our main Curriculum Steps Programme so the PDF week numbers and spellings relate to this programme.

  • Phonics – reading and writing words using phonics

    Recognising and reading single sounds in English

    Recognising and reading main digraphs (e.g. ou) and trigraphs (e.g. igh)

    Sounding out real words and alien words phonetically

    Practise for the Year 1 Phonics Screening Test

    Handwriting practise to improve handwriting using letter formation groups

    Dictation activities to strengthen spelling

  • How to structure sentences and use punctuation

    What is a sentence?

    Capital letters for sentence starts and proper nouns

    How to form capital letters

    How to write a sentence – including capital letters and full stops

    What is a question?

    How to form/when to use a question mark

    What is an exclamation mark and when to use an exclamation mark

    How to improve sentences using adjectives and conjunctions

  • How to spell using syllables, suffixes, prefixes, plurals and compound words

    Learning to read and spell words with air, ear, are

    Learning to read and spell words with nk

    Learning to read and spell words with tch

    Learning to read and spell words with air, ear, are

    Learning to read and spell words with tch

    How to use syllables to help in spelling and reading

    How to spell plurals (adding s and es)

    How to add suffixes (ing, ed, er, est)

    Spelling words with silent letters (ph, wh)

    Spelling words which use k rather than c before e, i, y

    How to use the prefix un

    Spelling compound words (rainbow, butterfly etc.)

  • How to write in different genre

    Understanding the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts

    Planning and writing a story using adjectives and conjunctions

    Planning and writing a non-fiction text

    Exploring rhyming words and writing a poem