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

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

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