Author: Sarah Bytheway

Year Six Reading Spine

Autumn 1 / Topic: Stand and Deliver	Autumn 2 / Topic: Go with the Flow	Spring 1 / Topic The Battle for Britain	Spring 2 / Topic: On Top of the World	Summer 1 / Topic: What Came First the Chicken or the Egg?	Summer 2 / Topic: Light up My Life
Fiction: / Storm Breaker: Antony Horowitz (class story) / Non-Fiction: / Collection text extracts relating to crime and punishment / History of Langtoft: Richard Platt / Life of Dick Turpin / Poetry: / The Highwayman: / Alfred Noyes / The Lady of Shalott: Alfred Lord Tennyson	Fiction: / Storm Breaker: Antony Horowitz (class story) / Non-Fiction: / Amazing Rivers, Julie Vosburgh Agnone / Poetry: / The Brook: Alfred Lord Tenyson / The River’s Story : Brian Patten / https://www.literacyshed.com/the-poetry-shed.html	Fiction: / Goodnight Mr Tom (class story) / Extracts / Michael Morpurgo: Kensuke’s Kingdom, / the Ghost of Grania ~O’Malley, / Why the Whales Came / Non-Fiction: / Selection newspaper articles- / front pages during WWII/Battle of Britain / Beast of Bodmin Moor / Islands of Fire / News Shed (online) / Barak Obama’s inaugural speech / Martin Luther King Jnr. ‘I have a dream speech’ / Extracts / Bill Bryson ‘Notes from a Small Island’ / Poetry: WWII poetry / High Flight: John Magee / A Gunner’s Day: Anon	Fiction: / Goodnight Mr Tom (class story) / Non-Fiction: / Extracts: / Touching the Void: Joe Simpson / Facing Up: Bear Grylls / The Death Zone: Matt Dickenson, / Endurance’s Las / t Voyage : Ernest Shackleton, / 20 hrs, 40 min...Our flight in the Friendship: Amelia Earhart / Everest: Stewart and Stanton / Library books: mountains / Poetry: / extracts Mont Blanc: Shelley / Icarus	Fiction: / Secrets of the Sun King: Emma Carroll (class story) / Non-Fiction: / Great scientists- various extracts / Explanation texts: how the heart works / Biography of Charles Darwin, David Attenborough / Poetry: / Jabberwocky: Lewis Carroll	Fiction: / Secrets of the Sun King: Emma Carroll (class story) / Non-Fiction: / Great scientists- various extracts / History of Langtoft / Poetry: / Funky Chickens: Benjamin Zephania / On the Move: Poems about Migration, Michael Rosen

Reading for Pleasure Recommended choices / (Y6 has the longest list because most children will be off the Reading Scheme)	The Shark Caller: Zillah Bethell / The Middler: Kirsty Applebaum / High Rise Mystery: Sharna Jackson / Survival in Space: David Long / 8000 Things you should know: Great Adventures: Alastair Humphreys / Swimming with Sharks: Heather Lang / The Island: Armin Greeder / The Midnight Guardians: Ross Motgomery / Everest: Stewart & Stanton / Darwin’s Dragon: / Malamander: Thomas Taylor / Wildspark:Vashti Hardy / Boy in the Tower: Polly Ho-Yen / Wonder: R.J.Palacio / A Pocket full of Stars: Aisha Bushby / Amari: B.B. Alston / First Light: Rebecca Stead / Crater Lake: Jennifer Killick / Head Kid: David Baddiel / Little Grey Men : BB / In Darkling Wood: Emma Carroll / Small Steps: Louis Sacher / Pig Heart Boy: Mallory Blackman / Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Rasome / Secret Water: Arthur Ransome / Goodnight Mr Tom: Michelle Magorian / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mark Twain / Northern Lights Philip Pullman / Little Women: Louisa May Alcott / What not to do if you Turn Invisible: Ross Welford / Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson / Nation: Terry Pratchett / A.N.T.D.O.T.E.: Mallory Blackman / Bear Grylls: Mission Survival / Bear Grylls: Gold of the Gods / The Girl of Ink and Stars: Kiran Millwood Hargrave / The Hobbit: J.R.R Tolkein / The Girl Who Speaks Bear: Sophie Anderson / The Harry Potter series: J.K. Rowling

Year Six Reading Spine

The Thief Who Sang Storms : Sophie Anderson
Dread Wood :Jennifer Killick
The Explorer :Katherine Rundell
Oceanarium: Loveday Trinick
Goddess: Females who have shaped belief British Museum
The Invasion of Crooked Oak: Dan Smith