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

  • Garden Flowers

    Garden Flowers

    Identify and record how to use pictograms to organise and present information about some of the special flowers growing in a family garden

  • Clock Minutes

    Clock Minutes

    Read, match and record times to five minutes using analog and digital clock faces that can identify start times for different events and experiences

  • Springtime Sentences

    Springtime Sentences

    Explain and model how to compose and punctuate sentences using capital letters and full stops correctly to describe spring events and experiences

  • Family Visit

    Family Visit

    Read and write recounts of a family visit to a special location that also includes weather information