English Year One Planning Term One
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
Theme One
Family Life
Explore the structure and content of stories with a familiar setting that takes place in a family home, produce signs, labels and dictionaries for families to use, compose poems about different places, spell words with different phonemes and join sentence clauses using the conjunction and
(A) Family Homes
Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing
(B) Family Scenes
Practise using descriptive vocabulary to describe settings in stories, identify and spell words with the same endings and select vocabulary to complete sentences
(C) Family Households
Investigate and respond to settings, characters and plot events in stories about family life and parents, investigate words with common endings and practise writing sentences for character dialogue
(D) Family Problems
Compose and publish a story about how families might experience and fix problems in their homes, practise spelling words that end in the letter y and sequence sentences to write short narratives
(E) Family Shopping
Read and produce signs and labels that families might see whilst out shopping, identify words with the vowel digraphs ay and oy and practise writing words in sentences leaving the correct spaces
(F) Family Dictionary
Read and write dictionary entries to define topic and vocabulary words about types of food that families could buy when going shopping, build different words using vowel digraphs and write and punctuate simple sentences
(G) Family Outings
Read and explore poems with descriptive vocabulary about different places that families could visit on a special outing, practise spelling words with the vowel digraphs air and ear and join sentence clauses and words using the conjunction and
(H) Special Family Places
Read and write poems about different places that are special to families using descriptive vocabulary, spell words containing the vowel digraphs ar and or and practise using and to join words and clauses in sentences about a range of locations
Theme Two
Rhymes and Stories
Investigate the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, explore and adapt a range of traditional tales, learn spellings of words with vowel digraphs and punctuate sentences with capital letters and full stops
(I) Rhyming Poems
Explore the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, identify and spell words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo and match sets of rhyming words
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Counting Back
Practise using the number technique of counting back to solve and complete a range of abstract and contextual subtraction calculations
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Mother Nature
Explore how mother nature can provide nourishment, protection and support to all living things in different habitats and environments
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Digraphs Word Sums
Investigate the spellings and meanings of different sets of words with a range of initial consonant digraphs
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Van Gogh
Investigate and replicate the work and painting style of a famous artist from the past by producing a matching landscape of the school building