English Year One Planning Term One

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

Theme One

Family Life

Explore the structure and content of stories with a familiar setting that takes place in a family home, produce signs, labels and dictionaries for families to use, compose poems about different places, spell words with different phonemes and join sentence clauses using the conjunction and

(A) Family Homes

Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing

(B) Family Scenes

Practise using descriptive vocabulary to describe settings in stories, identify and spell words with the same endings and select vocabulary to complete sentences

(C) Family Households

Investigate and respond to settings, characters and plot events in stories about family life and parents, investigate words with common endings and practise writing sentences for character dialogue

(D) Family Problems

Compose and publish a story about how families might experience and fix problems in their homes, practise spelling words that end in the letter y and sequence sentences to write short narratives

(E) Family Shopping

Read and produce signs and labels that families might see whilst out shopping, identify words with the vowel digraphs ay and oy and practise writing words in sentences leaving the correct spaces

(F) Family Dictionary

Read and write dictionary entries to define topic and vocabulary words about types of food that families could buy when going shopping, build different words using vowel digraphs and write and punctuate simple sentences

(G) Family Outings

Read and explore poems with descriptive vocabulary about different places that families could visit on a special outing, practise spelling words with the vowel digraphs air and ear and join sentence clauses and words using the conjunction and

(H) Special Family Places

Read and write poems about different places that are special to families using descriptive vocabulary, spell words containing the vowel digraphs ar and or and practise using and to join words and clauses in sentences about a range of locations

Theme Two

Rhymes and Stories

Investigate the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, explore and adapt a range of traditional tales, learn spellings of words with vowel digraphs and punctuate sentences with capital letters and full stops

(I) Rhyming Poems

Explore the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, identify and spell words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo and match sets of rhyming words

  • Maths Measurement Assessment

    Maths Measurement Assessment

    Assess abilities in estimating, measuring and comparing a range of different measurements for length, mass and capacity

  • Family Life

    Family Life

    Investigate and reflect on some of the special events and experiences that might happen in the life of a family

  • Final Sounds Word Guess

    Final Sounds Word Guess

    Practise playing some guessing and matching games to identify the spelling and meaning of words with different final sounds

  • Building Reports

    Building Reports

    Explore how to collect facts and information to work with when composing and presenting non-chronological reports about buildings that can be found in the local area