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

  • Family Belongings

    Family Belongings

    Identify and record how to use apostrophes for possession with singular nouns to describe some of the different things that might be owned and used by a family

  • Friendship

    Friendship

    Read and illustrate some of the stories from the Bible that were told by Jesus about how to use different skills to support friends in a range of life situations and scenarios

  • Shape Matching

    Shape Matching

    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

  • Buses, Trains, Planes

    Buses, Trains, Planes

    Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys