Foundation Stage 1
Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?
Come on Daisy Dear Zoo
Each Peach Plum Pear Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Diary
Hug Jasper’s Beanstalk
The Train Ride The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Where’s spot? We’re going on a bear hunt
10 tiny tadpoles
Fairy tales: 3 little pigs
The ugly ducking
Foundation Stage 2
Somebody swallowed Stanley
Farmer Duck Handa’s surprise
Mr Grumpy’s Outing Mrs Armitage on wheels
On the way home Owl Babies Rosie’s Walk
Shh! Six Dinner Sid The Gruffalo
Whatever Next! Commotion in the Ocean
The bad-tempered ladybird Supertato
Fairy tales: Little red hen
Billy goats gruff Goldilocks and the 3 bears
The giant turnip The gingerbread man
The princess and the pea The magic porridge pot
Year 1
Avocado Baby Beegu
Can’t you sleep little bear? Cops and Robbers
Dogger Elmer
Funnybones Knuffle Bunny Lost and Found Peace at last
The elephant and the bad baby The tiger who came to tea Where the wild things are The snail and the whale
Tiddler Everywhere bear
Night monkey day monkey The rescue party
Naughty bus You can’t take an elephant on the bus
Fairy tales: Stone soup
The elves and the shoe maker Little red riding hood
Jack and the beanstalk Hansel and Gretel Rumpelstiltskin
Year 2
Amazing Grace
Chirchir is singing Dr Xargle’s book of earthlets Emily Brown and the thing
Fantastic Mr Fox Flat Stanley
Frog and Toad together Gorilla
Meerkat mail Not now Bernard
Paddington/Paddington goes to the zoo Pumpkin soup
The flower The giraffe, the Pelly and me
The Hodeheg Dear Greenpeace The whales song The blue balloon
The Lighthouse keeper’s lunch The owl who was afraid of the dark
Traction man is here Tuesday
Who’s afraid of the big bad book The Rainbow bear
George’s marvellous medicine The enchanted wood
The day the crayons quit
Alternate fairy tales e.g. Jack and the incredibly mean stalk, the true story of the 3 little pigs
Year 3
Stone Age boy Cat tales: Ice cat
Town is by the sea The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane
Jeremy strong romans on the rampage The Creakers
Hansel and Gretel: Antony Brown The Abominables
The battle of bubble squeak Iron man
The Sheep-Pig Diary of a killer cat The selfish giant
It was a dark and stormy night The earth beneath my feet My name is not refugee
The hundred-mile an hour dog The pebble in my pocket
Year 4
Charlotte’s web Perry Angel’s suitcase
Firework maker’s daughter The lion. the witch and the wardrobe
The snow – Walker’s Son Voices in the park
Why the whales came This morning I met a whale
Secrets of a sun king How to train your dragon
Beowulf the brave The cat mummy
Year 5
Pax Varjak Paw
FArTHER Goodnight Mister Tom
Holes Midnight Fox Street Child
Tom’s Midnight garden Boy giant son of Gulliver
Wolf brother The wolves of Willoughby Chase
The machine Gunners The lion and the unicorn
Percy Jackson and the lightening thief No ballet shoes in Syria
Boy at the back of the class George’s secret key to the universe
The midnight fox Mala’s magic pencil
Who let the God’s out
Year 6
Boy in the girl’s bathroom Journey Arrival
Clockwork Eagle in the Snow
Fireweed Midsummer Night’s Dream
River Boy Skellig
The Hobbit The Watertower
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Cogheart
The Railway Children Letters from the lighthouse
Journey to Jo’burg Wonder
Key authors children at St Richard’s are exposed to:
Julia Donaldson Janet Ahlberg Allan Ahlberg David McKee
Shirley Hughes Dick King Smith
Ted Hughes Michael Morpurgo
C.S. Lewis Louis Sachar
Anne Fine Enid Blyton
Philip Pulman J.R.R Tolkien J.K Rowling
William Shakespeare
All year groups to have experience of the following:
Stories from other cultures
Poems Plays
Non-fiction texts Reading in context e.g. newspaper, leaflet
