English Year One Planning

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

  • Family Outings

    Family Outings

    Read and explore poems with descriptive vocabulary about different places that families could visit on a special outing

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys

  • Transport Poems

    Transport Poems

    Read and respond to poems about different ways to travel using a range of transportation vehicles

  • Family Visit

    Family Visit

    Read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information

  • Weather Postcards

    Weather Postcards

    Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays

  • Space Flight

    Space Flight

    Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world

  • Family Dictionary

    Family Dictionary

    Read and write dictionary entries to define topic and vocabulary words about types of food that families could buy when going shopping

  • Family Problems

    Family Problems

    Compose and publish a story about how families might experience and fix problems in their homes

  • Family Scenes

    Family Scenes

    Suggest and record some of the different events that might come before and after a range of scenes in a narrative story about things that can happen in a family

  • Family Households

    Family Households

    Investigate and respond to settings, characters and plot events in stories about family life and parents

  • Family Homes

    Family Homes

    Practise writing a range of sentences to describe how families might use different rooms in their homes related to some of the things that happened in a story with a familiar setting

  • Wild Things

    Wild Things

    Explore narrative settings and predict events in a story set in a fantasy world, investigate the spellings of different words with tch endings and practise joining pairs of sentences using the conjunction and

  • Word Matching

    Word Matching

    Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters

  • Family Toys

    Family Toys

    Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time

  • Subtraction Digits

    Subtraction Digits

    Model and illustrate how to subtract pairs of single digit numbers within ten using concrete equipment and diagrams to support the subtraction calculations

  • Family Experiences

    Family Experiences

    Practise composing and presenting some example stories with familiar settings to illustrate things that might be experienced by a family