Unit E – Transport

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to read and respond to poems about different ways to travel using a range of transportation vehicles, investigate syllables heard in words and identify words that require capital letters. The children can select effective ways of performing a poem to the class.

Read and respond to poems about different ways to travel using a range of transportation vehicles

Lesson One : Word Syllables

Explore how to identify and record the number of syllables that can be heard in a range of different words that might be seen when reading a poem about a special journey

Lesson Two : Capital Letters

Explain and model how to punctuate some different sentences about train journeys using initial capital letters for the correct words

Lesson Three : Word Rhymes

Practise selecting and matching different sets of words that rhyme to use when describing something that might happen on a train journey

Lesson Four : Vehicle Sounds

Investigate how to make a list of special words that can be used to describe different transport vehicles and record their matching sets of word syllables

Lesson Five : Poetry Performances

Practise reading poems about some different forms of transport using a range of voice styles, expressions and actions in a performance

  • Counting Back

    Counting Back

    Practise using the number technique of counting back to solve and complete a range of abstract and contextual subtraction calculations

  • Mother Nature

    Mother Nature

    Explore how mother nature can provide nourishment, protection and support to all living things in different habitats and environments

  • Digraphs Word Sums

    Digraphs Word Sums

    Investigate the spellings and meanings of different sets of words with a range of initial consonant digraphs

  • Van Gogh

    Van Gogh

    Investigate and replicate the work and painting style of a famous artist from the past by producing a matching landscape of the school building