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
Theme One
Africa
Investigate the structure and content of a story from another culture, write an information text about African animals, practise spelling words with vowel digraphs and punctuate sentences with capital letters and full stops.
(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
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Castle Defense
Investigate and record different ways that castles were constructed and located in the past to provide protection to the inhabitants and local community
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Digit Addition
Practise adding different pairs of single digit numbers to record matching sums to ten using concrete equipment and diagrams to support calculations
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Suffix Sentences
Identify and illustrate how word roots can change their spellings meanings after suffixes have been added when used in some example sentences
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Dragon Poems
Select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon