English Year One Planning Term Two

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) Handa’s Surprise

Investigate the use of patterned language in a story from another culture, explore spellings of words with different vowel digraphs and practise punctuating and writing sentences using capital letters and full stops

  • 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