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

  • Traditional Fables

    Traditional Fables

    Explore and model the events and characters that feature in traditional tales written as fables to teach the reader a moral lesson

  • The Dove and the Ant

    The Dove and the Ant

    Plan and write a story with animals as the central characters based on a fable read by the class which is used to teach the reader a moral lesson about life

  • Town and Country Mouse

    Town and Country Mouse

    Dramatise and retell a traditional story with animal characters that has been written as a fable to teach the reader a moral lesson related to the story narrative

  • The Hare and the Tortoise

    The Hare and the Tortoise

    Select and change some of the main characters in a retelling of a traditional fable story to illustrate how the narrative events might alter