Author: Sarah Bytheway

Year 2 Reading Spine

Autumn 1 / Topic: Let’s Explore	Autumn 2 / Topic: Fire! Fire!	Spring 1 / Topic: Land of the / dragons	Spring 2 / Topic: How does your garden grow?	Summer 1 / Topic: All creatures great and small	Summer 2 / Topic: Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
Fiction: / Roald Dahl stories– Fantastic Mr Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, Esio Trot, The Magic Finger, The Twits (Children’s vote) / The Day the Crayons Quit, Drew Daywalt / Window, Jeannie Baker / The Man on the Moon (a day in the life of Bob), Simon Bartrum / Non-Fiction: / Christopher Columbus, Usborne Famous Lives / One Giant Leap, Robert Burleigh / Poetry: / Poems Aloud Joseph Coelho	Fiction: / Roald Dahl stories– Fantastic Mr Fox, The Enormous Crocodile, Esio Trot, The Magic Finger, The Twits (Children’s vote) / Vlad and the Great Fire of London / Kate Cunningham and Sam Cunningham / Toby and the Great Fire of London, Margaret Nash & Jane Cope / Non-Fiction: / The Great Fire of London; 350th Anniversary of the Great Fie of 1666, Emma Adams& James Weston Lewis / The Great Fire of London, Liz Gogerly / Poetry: / A Tiny, Burning Flame (Twinkl)	Fiction: / The Boy Who Grew Dragons, Andy Shepherd / Dare to Care: Pet Dragon / The Dragon Machine, Helen Ward / The Great Dragon Rescue, Mark Robertson / The Egg, M.P. Robertson / Non-Fiction: / Information books about China / Shanyi goes to China, Sungwan So / Poetry: / Evidence of Dragons, Pie Corbett (poetry)	Fiction: / The Boy Who Grew Dragons, Andy Shepherd / The Secret Sky Garden- Linda Sarah and Fiona Lumbers / The Tin Forest- Helen Ward and Wayne Anderson / Jack and the Baked Bean-stalk, Colin Stimpson / Trust me, Jack’s Beanstalk Stinks, Eric Braun / Non-Fiction: / The Big Book of Blooms / The Tree Book / Poetry: / I am the Seed that Grew the Tree; A Poem for Every Day of the Year, Fiona Waters & Frann Preston-Gannon	Fiction: / The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark, Jill Tomlinson / Non-Fiction: / Amazing Animals Treasury, Chris Packam / Poetry: / The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear / Perfectly Peculiar Pets, Ellie Woollard	Fiction: / The Enchanted Wood: The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton / The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch (and other Lighthouse Keeper books), Ronda and David Armitage / Non-Fiction: / Above and Below: Sea and Shore / Poetry: / A First Book of the Sea, Nicola Davies / Shape poetry

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Year 2 Reading Spine