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

(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 for different items when visiting a range of shops

(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

  • Sporting Poems

    Sporting Poems

    Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games

  • Food and Drink

    Food and Drink

    Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals

  • Sea Animals

    Sea Animals

    Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach

  • Number Bonds to Twenty

    Number Bonds to Twenty

    Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty