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

  • Special Family Places

    Special Family Places

    Read and write poems about different places that are special to families using descriptive vocabulary words and patterned language

  • 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

  • Money Coin Sums

    Money Coin Sums

    Practise identifying, combining and recording sets of coins that can make matching sums that can be used when shopping for different products

  • Maths Number Assessment

    Maths Number Assessment

    Assess abilities in working with numbers to solve abstract and contextual problems when calculating sums, products and quotients using different techniques and methods

  • Animal Lists

    Animal Lists

    Investigate how to compile lists using commas to present information about some of the special animals that live in habitats around the world

  • English Spelling Assessment

    English Spelling Assessment

    Assess abilities in spelling different vocabulary words based on the National Curriculum programmes of study for Key Stage One