Unit G – Bus Trips

This English scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to read and compare explanations with fictional stories about how and why families can make different journeys by bus, identify and match pairs of words that are homophones and use commas to separate items in a list..

Read and compare explanations with fictional stories about how and why families can make different journeys by bus

Lesson One : Word Match
Play games to identify and match words that are homophones with different spellings and meanings but the same sounds

Lesson Two : Bus Questions
Select and record different questions that could be asked to find out how and why people travel by bus

Lesson Three : Bus Sentences
Identify and record different sentences that can be used in a story or an explanation about buses

Lesson Four : Journey Lists
Practise using commas to separate words in lists of items that might be needed for different journeys

Lesson Five : Special Places
Compose and write sentences containing lists of items that might be needed when visiting somewhere special
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty