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

(E) Transport

Read and respond to poems about different ways to travel using a range of transportation vehicles, investigate syllables heard in words and identify words that require capital letters

(F) Buses, Trains, Planes

Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling, identify syllables in words and punctuate sentences using capital letters

  • Word Matching

    Word Matching

    Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters

  • Family Toys

    Family Toys

    Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time

  • Subtraction Digits

    Subtraction Digits

    Model and illustrate how to subtract pairs of single digit numbers within ten using concrete equipment and diagrams to support the subtraction calculations

  • Family Experiences

    Family Experiences

    Practise composing and presenting some example stories with familiar settings to illustrate things that might be experienced by a family