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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Vehicle Numbers
Investigate and record how to make and count models of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to match objects related to different types of vehicles
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Bible Stories
Research and illustrate how the teachings of Jesus are presented in different stories from the Bible
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Word Matching
Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters
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Family Toys
Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time