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

  • 3D Shape Labels

    3D Shape Labels

    Identify and record how to label models and illustrations of some different 3D shapes to indicate their special properties

  • Adventure Plays

    Adventure Plays

    practise composing and performing play scripts using the correct structure and format to illustrate adventures to different locations

  • Shakespeare Plays

    Shakespeare Plays

    Investigate the structure and format of different scenes extracted from plays by William Shakespeare to use for drama performances

  • Greek Myths

    Greek Myths

    Practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece