Unit F – Buses, Trains, Planes

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling, identify syllables in words and punctuate sentences using capital letters. The class can use the five senses to write lines for their poem about a journey.

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

Lesson One : Word Syllables

Explore how to identify and record lists of words with different numbers of syllables used in some example sentences about a range of forms of transport

Lesson Two : Capital Letters

Investigate how to identify and record some of the words that should be written with a capital letter in example sentences about a bus journey to a special location

Lesson Three : Transport Words

Explore how to select and list some special vocabulary words that can be used to describe journeys that can be made using different forms of transport

Lesson Four : Poetry Writing

Practise selecting and combining special vocabulary words to build lines for a poem with patterned language to describe a form of transport

Lesson Five : Poetry Display

Explore how to redraft and edit poems with patterned language to display in the classroom describing a type of transport that can be used for a range of journeys

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