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

  • Garden Numbers

    Garden Numbers

    Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers

  • Summer Stories

    Summer Stories

    Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer

  • Fraction Numbers

    Fraction Numbers

    Investigate how to use concrete equipment, diagrams and calculations to identify and record the matching fractions of different numbers

  • Family Holiday Lists

    Family Holiday Lists

    Explore how to compile sentences punctuated using commas to list some of the special things that families can use, complete and experience on a holiday