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

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

  • Word Play Poems

    Word Play Poems

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

  • Food Numbers

    Food Numbers

    Practise using pictograms to present and organise data and information about the counted numbers of different types of food

  • Dance Journeys

    Dance Journeys

    Select, refine and perform sequences of dance steps to reflect some of the movements that might be made by vehicles on a range of different journeys

  • Science Questions

    Science Questions

    Practise asking and answering questions using the correct punctuation to investigate and explain how things work in the world