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
(H) Zoo Keepers
Compose and present a set of instructions about how to care for different types of wild animals in a zoo, match definitions for words with the suffix ible and practise compiling notes to answer key questions about animals
(I) Zoo Cafe
Draft and edit sets of instructions that can be used to prepare foods to serve in a zoo cafe, check the spellings of words containing the suffixes able and ible and extend sentences to work with when composing matching texts
(J) Story Figures
Explore how authors describe and use characters when telling a narrative story, build words by adding suffixes to words ending in fer and write sentences using commas and modal verbs based on Five Children and It, E Nesbit
(K) Story Drama
Investigate some of the special ways that authors use settings to dramatise and tell a narrative story, practise adding the suffix ence to different word roots and extend sentences using commas to insert descriptive phrases based on Five Children and It, E Nesbit
(L) Story Scenes
Practise changing and adapting scenes from a narrative story with an animal as the central character, match words with suffixes to spelling rules and insert phrases into sentences using commas based on Five Children and It, E Nesbit
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