English Year Two Planning

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

  • Transport

    Transport

    Research and present information about some forms of transport that can be used for different family journeys to visit special locations

  • Dragon Poems

    Dragon Poems

    Select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon

  • Word Play Poems

    Word Play Poems

    Investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes

  • Animal Encyclopaedia

    Animal Encyclopaedia

    Devise a class information book that uses alphabetical ordering to describe different mini-beasts that might live in the school grounds

  • Animal Research

    Animal Research

    Practise different ways of finding information about animals in non-fiction information books, investigate words spelt with the or sound and use commas to write lists

  • Animal Adventures

    Animal Adventures

    Plan and write a story based on a book by a significant author about an animal kept as a pet by a family

  • Mystery Pets

    Mystery Pets

    Write and edit poems using patterned language about some of the different wild animals that could be kept as pets by a family

  • Wild Animals

    Wild Animals

    Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet

  • Unusual Pets

    Unusual Pets

    Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet

  • Pet Shop

    Pet Shop

    Investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases

  • Fantastic Foxes

    Fantastic Foxes

    Explore the narrative structure and sequence of events in a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters

  • Pirate Ships

    Pirate Ships

    Read and follow sets of simple instructions, practise building words by adding the suffix ly to different word roots and write sentences that are commands, questions and statements

  • Vehicle Numbers

    Vehicle Numbers

    Investigate and record how to make and count models of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to match objects related to different types of vehicles

  • Bible Stories

    Bible Stories

    Research and illustrate how the teachings of Jesus are presented in different stories from the Bible

  • 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