English Year Two Planning Term One
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Two in Key Stage One covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
(A) New Pets
Explore descriptive language used in stories about family life, practise spelling words with le endings and write sentences using the correct punctuation
(B) Pet Shop
Investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases
(C) Unusual Pets
Plan and write a narrative story about keeping an unusual animal as a pet, learn spellings of words with the /i:/ sound spelt ey and write descriptive sentences using expanded noun phrases
(D) Wild Animals
Write and edit a narrative story about keeping a wild animal as a family pet, spell words ending in y and select descriptive vocabulary to describe story settings in their narrative writing
(E) Wild Pets
Investigate some of the special words used to describe different types of wild animals in poems with patterned language
(G) Bus Trips
Read and compare explanations with fictional stories about how and why families can make different journeys by bus
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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
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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
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Journeys Poems
Practise selecting powerful vocabulary words to use in poems that can describe some of the journeys made by families using different types of transport
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Special Places Poems
Practise composing and presenting poems using descriptive vocabulary to illustrate some of the special places that can be found in the world