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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    Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry

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    Explain and model how to measure, record and compare the mass of some different toys and games using scales, bucket balances and symbols for greater than and less than

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    Describe and compare how families enjoyed seaside holidays together in the past with similar events and experiences enjoyed by families today