English Year Two Planning Term Two

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

Pirates

Select and write sets of instructions for pirates to follow, explore the structure and content of adventure stories, compose poems using figurative language about the sea, practise adding different suffixes to word roots and link sentence clauses using conjunctions.

(A) Pirate Ships

Read and follow sets of simple instructions, practise building words by adding the suffix ly to different word roots and write sentences that are commands, questions and statements

  • Vehicle Numbers

    Vehicle Numbers

    Investigate and record how to make and count models of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to match objects related to different types of vehicles

  • Bible Stories

    Bible Stories

    Research and illustrate how the teachings of Jesus are presented in different stories from the Bible

  • Word Matching

    Word Matching

    Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters

  • Family Toys

    Family Toys

    Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time