English Year One Planning Term Three
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
Journeys
Explore the structure and content of a story with a fantasy setting, write recounts about different journeys, compose poems with patterned language about places to visit, practise adding the suffixes ed and ing to word roots and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses.

(A) Wild Things
Explore narrative settings and predict events in a story set in a fantasy world, investigate the spellings of different words with tch endings and practise joining pairs of sentences using the conjunction and

(B) Space Flight
Change and adapt a story about a journey in a fantasy world, explore words that contain the /k/ sound for the letters c and k, and practise using the conjunction and to join sentences with the correct punctuation

(C) Weather Postcards
Read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on family holidays, practise adding the suffix ed to word roots to indicate the past tense in sentences and investigate punctuation to use for statements and questions

(D) Family Visit
Read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information, practise spelling different words using the suffix ing and write a range of sentences that are either statements or questions to explore places
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Family Events
Identify and record how to punctuate sentences that are statements and questions correctly to illustrate things that can happen in a family
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Sea Sounds
Compose and perform a range of musical compositions to reflect movements of sea waves and animals that live on a beach and in the sea
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Garden Flowers
Identify and record how to use pictograms to organise and present information about some of the special flowers growing in a family garden
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Clock Minutes
Read, match and record times to five minutes using analog and digital clock faces that can identify start times for different events and experiences