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WHAT’S NEW IN THE NEW EDITIONS OF CRACKING COMPREHENSION?
Unit 1
Look and Listen
The Gingerbread Man
Sam and Misty
Zack’s Moon
Teaching Texts
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Cat and Mouse
Tess’s Pool
Practice Texts
The Farmyard Tim’s Van
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Book Band Red: (Letters and Sounds Phase 3)
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Book Band Yellow: (Letters and Sounds Phase 4)
Unit 9
The Sick Dragon
The Sun and the Stars
Minibeasts in the Garden or Park
Skip and the Shark
The Men on the Moon
Minibeasts in the Pond
Lion’s Lunch
New Clothes for Alex by Mary Dickinson (moved from Year 2, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
The Lion and the Mouse
A Bun for Barney by Joyce Dunbar (moved from Year 2, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
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Book Band Green
(Letters and Sounds Phase 5)
Year 1
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Assessment Tasks
Task A
Fiction
Farm Animals
Martha's Night
Are You New to Newts?
Task B
Task C
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Year 1
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Unit 1
Fiction
Timid Tim and the Cuggy Thief – John Prater
George and the Dragon – Chris Wormell
Something Else – Kathryn Cave
Teaching Texts
Dogger – Shirley Hughes
There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon – Jack Kent
Dilly’s Sports Day – Tony Bradman
Practice Texts
Sophie’s Snail – Dick King-Smith (moved from Year 3, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
Willie Whiskers – Margaret Gordon (moved from Year 3, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Non-Fiction
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Poetry
Unit 9
Big Cat, Little Cat – Lisa Regan
What Was London Like Before the Great Fire? – Kate Ruttle
Making Bread – Kate Ruttle
Dolphins – Kate Ruttle
What Was London Like After the Great Fire? – Kate Ruttle
Planting Bulbs – Kate Ruttle
What the Ladybird Heard – Julia Donaldson
Little Miss Muffet – Anon
Like an Animal – Joan Poulson
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - Jane Taylor, Anon, Lewis Carroll
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Year 2
YEAR
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Year 2
Task 1
Fiction
Mr Buzz the Beeman by Allan Ahlberg
Jake the Good Bad Dog by Annette and Nick Butterworth
The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis
Assessment Tasks
The Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 9
Poetry
Task 10
Goldfish by John Walsh
I Wouldn’t by John Ciardi
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Task 11
Playscript
The Snowman by Wes Magee
The Ants and the Grasshopper by Julie Meighan
Your Senses by Jinny Johnson
Task 12
Task 8
Task 5
Non-Fiction
Penguins by Ione Branton
Victoria Sponge Cake by Kate Ruttle
Eruption! by Anita Ganeri
Task 6
Task 7
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Year 2
Unit 1
Fiction
Fantastic Mr Fox - Roald Dahl
Mr Majeika - Humphrey Carpenter
The Lost Happy Endings - Carol Ann Duffy
Teaching Texts
Who's a Clever Girl, Then? - Rose Impey
The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy
Clarice Bean - Utterly Me - Lauren Child
Practice Texts
Grandpa's Indian Summer - Jamila Gavin (moved from Year 4, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate - Margaret Mahy (moved from Year 4, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Non-Fiction
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Poetry
Unit 9
Mountains - Ruth Thomson
From Spawn to Frog - Kate Ruttle
The World - Kate Ruttle
Coasts- Ruth Thomson
From Spawn to Frog - Kate Ruttle
The United Kingdom - Kate Ruttle
Walking With My Iguana - Brian Moses
Scissors - Allan Ahlberg
A Big Surprise - Michaela Morgan
New School - Kevin McCann
YEAR 2
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Year 3
Task 1
Fiction
It’s Not My Fault by Bel Mooney
A Cat Called Penguin by Holly Webb
Go Ahead, Secret Seven by Enid Blyton
Assessment Tasks
The Goose Girl by Gillian Cross
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Playscripts
Task 6
The Magic Twig by Julia Donaldson
Greedy Dog by James Hurley NEW
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Task 7
Poetry
A Visit to Yalding by John Coldwell
A Big Surprise by Michaela Morgan
Homework! Oh, Homework! by Jack Prelutsky
Task 8
Task 9
Task 10
Non-Fiction
All About Owls
The Skeleton
Vikings in Britain
Task 11
Task 12
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Year 3
Unit 1
Fiction
The Children of Green Knowe – Lucy M. Boston
The Diary of a Killer Cat – Anne Fine
Gangsta Granny – David Walliams
Teaching Texts
War Boy – Michael Foreman
Harriet’s Hare – Dick King-Smith
The Better Brown stories – Allan Ahlberg
Practice Texts
Mackerel and Chips – Michael Morpurgo (moved from Year 5, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
Oliver Twist’s Childhood – Charles Dickens (moved from Year 5, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Non-Fiction
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Poetry
Unit 9
Knight Survival Guide: Are You Tough Enough? – Anna Claybourne
Are You Wasting Good Food? - Kate Ruttle
What is a Robot? – Clive Gifford
Knight Survival Guide: Are You Tough Enough? – Anna Claybourne
Would You Eat Less-Than-Perfect Fruit and Vegetables? - Kate Ruttle
Robots in Film and TV – Kate Ruttle
Childhood Tracks – James Berry
A Small Dragon – Brian Patten
Hot Food – Michael Rosen
The Spirit of Place – Richard Brown
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Year 4
Task 1
Fiction
The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea by Ann Cameron
The Green Ship by Quentin Blake
The Little Ghost by Otfried Preussler
Assessment Tasks
Cliffhanger by Jacqueline Wilson
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Playscripts
Task 6
The Wonderful Smells by Julia Donaldson
A Dream of Elephants by Tony Mitton NEW
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Task 7
Poetry
Autumn Gilt by Valerie Bloom
Daddy Fell into the Pond by Alfred Noyes
The Music Lesson Rap by Clare Bevan
Task 8
Task 9
Task 10
Non-Fiction
Homesick Bugsy the Beagle
Rocket Balloon
Mummies
Task 11
Task 12
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Year 4
Unit 1
Fiction
Stig of the Dump – Clive King
The Cat Who Walked By Himself – Rudyard Kipling
Skellig – David Almond
Teaching Texts
The Little White Horse – Elizabeth Goudge
The Winged Horse – Rosalind Kerven
Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird
Practice Texts
Robert the Bruce – Geraldine McCaughrean (moved from Year 6, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
The Librarian – Kaye Umansky
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Non-Fiction
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Poetry
Unit 9
Jacky Daydream – Jacqueline Wilson
Just Helping My Family
The Pebble in my Pocket – Meredith Hooper
Sir Billy Butlin – Kate Ruttle (moved from Year 6, with new teaching and assessment guidance)
Mikael Saves the Day
The First Hominids – Kate Ruttle
You Can’t Be That – Brian Patten
Tell Me, Tell Me, Sarah Jane – Charles Causley
The Colour of My Dreams – Peter Dixon
Wings – Pie Corbett
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Year 5
Task 1
Fiction
The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
The Sea-Mammy by Philip Sherlock
Assessment Tasks
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Playscripts
Task 6
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Persephone by Julia Donaldson
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Task 7
Poetry
Sometimes I Think You Don’t Listen to a Word I Say! by Colin McNaughton
The Peacock by Cynthia Ryder
On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
Task 8
Task 9
Task 10
Non-Fiction
Woolly Mammoth
Bridget Riley
Is Big Best? by Camilla de la Bédoyère
Task 11
Task 12
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Year 5
The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
Just William – Richmal Crompton
Shine – Jill Paton Walsh
Treasure Island – R.L. Stevenson
Why the Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo
All Summer in a Day – Ray Bradbury
The Tempest – William Shakespeare Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
At Last the Jousts Begin! – Richard Platt and Chris Riddell
How It Works: A Magnetic Compass – Kate Ruttle
The Right Not to Work – Kate Ruttle
Boudicca, Bringer of Victory – Kate Ruttle
First Aid – Kate Ruttle
The Right to an Education – Kate Ruttle
Dream Team – Frances Nagle
We’re Going to See the Rabbit – Alan Brownjohn
The Giantess – Carol Ann Duffy
Problems with Hurricanes – Victor Hernández Cruz
Unit 1
Fiction Teaching Texts Practice Texts
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Non-Fiction
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Poetry
Unit 9
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Year 6
Task 1
Fiction
Cat and Mouse by Maggie Pearson
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar
Assessment Tasks
The Colour of Home by Mary Hoffman
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Playscripts
Task 6
Top of the Mops by Julia Donaldson
Small Incident in Library by David Sutton
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Task 7
Poetry
The Bully Asleep by John Walsh
Concrete Mixers by Patricia Hubbell
Ethan’s Voice by Rachel Carter
Task 8
Task 9
Task 10
Non-Fiction
Westside Journal
Should Bullies Always Be Excluded From School?
The Milky Way
Task 11
Task 12
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Year 6