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
-
Number Thousands
Compare, order and sequence different sets of four digits numbers by using the place value of their numerical digits including counting in steps of thousands
-
Lengths, Masses and Capacities
Solve a selection of contextual problems by comparing and converting between different units of measurement for mass, length and capacity
-
Ancient History Finds
Explore and illustrate how to use apostrophes for possession to indicate some of the special artefacts that were owned and used in past civilizations
-
Wind Turbine
Plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue listing arguments in favour of or against the installation of a wind turbine