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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Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Explore how and why the Ancient Egyptians constructed and used different pyramids and tombs to reflect their beliefs about the afterlife
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Earthquakes
Investigate and record some of the different causes and effects of earthquakes on locations around the world
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Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
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Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties