English Year Two Planning Term Three
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
Theme One
Curious Creatures
Explore the structure and content of a story with animals as the main characters, present information about animals in non-fiction texts, compose poems that play with words to describe different animals, learn spellings of words with a range of endings and investigate how to contract some words.
(A) Fantastic Foxes
Explore the narrative structure and sequence of events in a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters, investigate spellings of words with dge endings and use apostrophes for missing letters in contractions
(B) Animal Adventures
Plan and write a story based on a book by a significant author about an animal kept as a pet by a family, explore words with ge spellings and use apostrophes to show possession
(C) Animal Research
Practise different ways of finding information about animals in non-fiction information books, investigate words spelt with the or sound and use commas to write lists about groups of animals
(D) Animal Encyclopaedia
Devise a class information book that uses alphabetical ordering to describe different mini-beasts that might live in the school grounds, identify and spell words with the or and ar phonemes and punctuate lists in sentences using commas
(E) Word Play Poems
Investigate poems about different animals that play with language written as tongue twisters, riddles and rhymes, practise spelling words ending in the suffix tion and use noun phrases to describe and specify animals
(F) Dragons
Select descriptive vocabulary to use when writing poems that play with language to describe different parts of a dragon, explore the meaning of words with tion endings and practise writing extended noun phrases
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Shape Matching
Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry
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Buses, Trains, Planes
Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys
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Toy Masses
Explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than
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Seaside Holidays
Describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today