English Year Five Planning Term One
Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Five in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
Theme One
Authors
Explore the structure and narrative content of stories by significant children’s authors, investigate figurative language used in narrative poems, match pairs of words that are homophones and use commas to extend sentences by adding extra phrases and clauses
(A) Story Ingredients
Explore narrative structures and use of vocabulary by an established children’s writer, identify and spell words with silent letters and convert sentences between the third and first person based
(B) Story Enrichment
Identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases with adjectives and prepositions
(C) Story Structures
Investigate and model how to use narrative structures employed by authors, match definitions of words that are commonly confused with each other and practise extending sentences using commas
(D) Story Journal
Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of words that are homonyms and practise extending sentences by using commas to add extra words and phrases
(E) Lady of Shalott
Read and write instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo, practise adding the suffix able to different word roots and compose and structure sentences in a range of forms
(F) Pied Piper
Investigate the language style and structure of a narrative poem to retell using prose and other poetry styles, practise adding prefixes to roots using hyphens and use modal verbs to change poetry lines
Theme Two
Crazy Creatures
Select and record sets of instructions about animals that live in a zoo, explore adventure stories with unusual animals as main characters, spell words with different suffixes and extend sentences using relative clauses
(G) Zoo Visitors
Read and write instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo, practise adding the suffix able to different word roots and compose and structure sentences in a range of forms
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Maths Arithmetic Assessment
Assess abilities in solving arithmetic number problems for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when working with informal and formal written calculations
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Environment
Identify and describe some of the special landscapes and locations that can be found in the world and reflect on how they can be protected and preserved for the future
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Silent Letter Words
Explore and illustrate the meanings and spellings of some different words with silent letters when using them in a range of topics and scenarios
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Complaint Letters
Explain and model how to format and structure writing when composing letters of complaint about different issues and scenarios