English Year Five Planning Term Two

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Five in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes

Theme One

Ancient Greeks

Investigate the structure and content of myths and legends by adapting a Greek myth, compose speeches for debates about Ancient Greece, write poems using figurative language describing Olympic sports, explore the spellings of words with prefixes and common letter strings and punctuate sentences using commas

(A) Theseus and the Minotaur

Explore the text features and characteristic structures of myths and legends, match words roots with the verb prefixes dis and mis and practise embedding relative clauses into sentences

  • Theme Park Visit

    Theme Park Visit

    Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip

  • Family Holiday Trips

    Family Holiday Trips

    Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world

  • Money Multiplication

    Money Multiplication

    Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems

  • Sport Teams

    Sport Teams

    Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team