Unit I – Rhyming Poems

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to explore the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems, identify and spell words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo and match sets of rhyming words. The class can practise performing poems using voice expressions and actions.

Explore the vocabulary and structure of a range of narrative and traditional poems

Lesson One : Word Rhymes Game

Play games to identify and match different words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo that can be used to describe events in a nursery rhyme

Lesson Two : Word Rhymes Sentences

Match and use words with the vowel digraphs ee and oo to complete a range of different sentences about nursery rhymes

Lesson Three : London Bridge Actions

Select and perform actions to accompany lines from a traditional nursery poem to illustrate characters, places and events

Lesson Four : Rhyming Changes

Identify and change some of the matching words that rhyme in a traditional nursery rhyme poem

Lesson Five : Poetry Performance

Select and perform different nursery rhymes to an audience with the correct volumes, tones and matching actions

  • Fraction Divisions

    Fraction Divisions

    Identify, calculate and record how to divide different shapes, quantities and numbers to illustrate the fractions of halves and quarters

  • Number Quarters

    Number Quarters

    Explain and model how to use concrete objects and pictorial diagrams to calculate one quarter of different numbers that are multiples of four

  • Shape Quarters

    Shape Quarters

    Practise identifying and dividing different types of shapes into four equal parts to illustrate the fraction values for quarters

  • Number Halves

    Number Halves

    Explain and model how to use concrete objects and pictorial diagrams to calculate one half of different numbers that are multiples of two and ten