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

(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

  • Family Adventures

    Family Adventures

    Explain and model how to compose recounts using time adverbials to sequence the events in family visits to familiar and unfamiliar locations

  • Sea Voyage

    Sea Voyage

    Plan and write a diary entry to describe a voyage as a member of the crew on a tall ship that is sailing across an ocean in the world

  • Mountain Expedition

    Mountain Expedition

    Plan and write a personal recount to describe a visit to a mountain landscape as part of a family holiday using time adverbials to sequence events

  • Zoo Encounters

    Zoo Encounters

    Plan and write a personal recount of a family visit to a zoo describing encounters with some of the different animals that could be seen in this location