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

  • Number Doubles

    Number Doubles

    Model and record how to double different numbers to twenty using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to support calculations

  • Zoo Animal Doubles

    Zoo Animal Doubles

    Practise doubling different numbers of animals that might be seen at a zoo recorded in words and digits to ten using diagrams and number lines to model each product

  • Doubles Facts

    Doubles Facts

    Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation

  • Tower Doubles

    Tower Doubles

    Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen