English Year Five Planning

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

  • Pied Piper

    Pied Piper

    Investigate the language style and structure of a narrative poem to retell the story using prose and other poetry styles

  • Seasons

    Seasons

    Select figurative imagery for use in poetry composing similes and metaphors to describe different seasons of the year

  • Wind Turbine

    Wind Turbine

    Plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue listing arguments in favour of or against the installation of a wind turbine

  • Viewpoints

    Viewpoints

    Investigate opposing viewpoints as presented in the media about environmental issues, explore spellings of words with cial endings and practise punctuating sentences using commas

  • Story Chapter

    Story Chapter

    Plan and write an extra chapter for an adventure story by a significant author to match the structure and style

  • Story Journal

    Story Journal

    Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of homonyms and practise extending sentences using commas

  • Story Structures

    Story Structures

    Investigate and model how to use narrative structures employed by authors when telling adventure stories

  • Story Enrichment

    Story Enrichment

    Identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases

  • Running Wild

    Running Wild

    Investigate the main characters, settings and sequence of events in an adventure story by a significant ’s author that takes place in a rainforest location

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    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

  • Lady of Shalott

    Lady of Shalott

    Explore how poets use figurative language to describe settings and characters when narrating a story

  • Story Ingredients

    Story Ingredients

    Explore narrative structures and use of vocabulary by an established children’s writer, identify and spell words with silent letters and convert sentences between the third and first person

  • English SPAG Assessment

    English SPAG Assessment

    Assess abilities in composing sentences for fiction and non-fiction using the correct spellings, punctuation marks and grammar vocabulary phrases

  • Maths Arithmetic Assessment

    Maths Arithmetic Assessment

    Assess abilities in solving arithmetic number problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when working with informal and formal written calculations

  • Environment

    Environment

    Identify and describe some of the special landscapes and locations that can be found in the world and reflect on how they can be protected and preserved for the future

  • Silent Letter Words

    Silent Letter Words

    Explore and illustrate the meanings and spellings of some different words with silent letters when using them in a range of topics and scenarios