Weather Explanations

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to investigate the structure and content of explanations that describe how and why different types of weather can occur in the world. The class can compose example sentences for explanations to describe how the weather can change the world.

Snow

Explore an explanation about how and why it snows by answering a range of different comprehension questions and completing sentences about the structure and content of the text

Rainstorm

Read and answer comprehension questions about the structure and content of an explanation that describes how and why it rains in the world

Wind

Identify and sequence parts of an explanation text to answer why and how something can happen in the weather around the world

  • Family News Events

    Family News Events

    Investigate and model how to compose news reports to describe some of the special events that can be experienced by a family

  • Sports Diary

    Sports Diary

    Select matching vocabulary words and sentence structures to use when composing diary entries describing how to participate in different sport competitions at the Olympic games

  • Counting Twenty

    Counting Twenty

    Explore how to model and illustrate ways of counting different numbers of objects and pictures with matching sums to twenty

  • Alphabet Lists

    Alphabet Lists

    Practise building lists of objects that have been recorded in alphabetical order to match different themes and topics