English Year Five Planning Term Three
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
Environment
Investigate the structure and content of a narrative story by a significant children’s author, write reports about environmental issues, select figurative language to describe seasons of the year in poetry, explore spellings of words with different suffixes and practise using modal verbs and commas in sentences.
(A) Running Wild
Investigate the main characters and settings in a story by a significant author set in a rainforest, explore spellings of words with tious and cious endings and write and change sentences using relative clauses
(B) Story Chapter
Plan and write an extra chapter for an adventure story by a significant author, practise spelling words with tious and cious endings and extend sentences using relative clauses
(C) Viewpoints
investigate opposing viewpoints as presented in the media about environmental issues, explore spellings of words with cial endings and practise punctuating sentences using commas
(D) Wind Turbine
Plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue, learn rules to spell words with cial and tial endings and use commas to separate phrases and clauses in a sentence
(E) Seasons
Select figurative imagery to describe different seasons of the year for use in poetry with similes and metaphors, investigate spellings of words with different suffix endings and use modal verbs to compose lines of poetry
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School Grounds
Explain and model how to measure and calculate the perimeters and areas of different shaped locations around the school grounds
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Rainforest Presentations
Select, manipulate and combine different forms of media to create a multimedia presentation about an aspect of life in a rainforest habitat
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Flag Printing
Practise and refine different techniques when printing colours, shapes and patterns to design flags to match specific locations
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Angle Observations
Identify, locate and classify examples of right, acute and obtuse angles that can be observed in a range of different shapes, objects and locations