English Year Five Planning Term Two
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
Ancient Greeks
Investigate the structure and content of myths and legends by adapting a Greek myth, compose speeches for debates about Ancient Greece, write poems using figurative language describing Olympic sports, explore the spellings of words with prefixes and common letter strings and punctuate sentences using commas
(A) Theseus and the Minotaur
Explore the text features and characteristic structures of myths and legends, match words roots with the verb prefixes dis and mis and practise embedding relative clauses into sentences
(B) Greek Myth Changes
Explore the text features and characteristic structures of myths and legends, match words roots with the verb prefixes dis and mis and practise embedding relative clauses into sentences
(C) Greek Myth Library
Plan and write a myth based on the lives of the Ancient Greeks, investigate relative clauses and explore spellings of verb prefixes based on The Orchard Book of Greek Myths
(D) Greek Battles
Write and present a speech to debate strategies for an Ancient Greek battle, explore words with the letter string ough and punctuate sentences using commas to indicate parenthesis
(E) Ancient Games Poems
Write and perform poems about different sports linked to the Olympic Games, practise spelling words with common letter strings and investigate the functions of commas in sentences
Theme Two
Future Worlds
Explore how to compose science fiction stories to describe how the world might change in the future, practise composing recounts about space travel and write poems using figurative language to describe celestial objects
(F) Time Machine
Investigate themes and narrative conventions in fantasy story writing, punctuate sentences using commas, brackets and convert words into verbs using suffixes based on The Time Machine, H G Wells
(G) Science Fiction
Plan and write a science-fiction story using matching narrative text features, punctuate sentences using dashes and model how to convert words into verbs using suffixes
(H) Space Exploration
Read and write recounts of space exploration from different viewpoints, investigate the spelling of words with the suffix ify and link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time
(I) Space Travel
Read and write recounts about space travel for different purposes, investigate spelling of words with ant endings and use adverbials in sentences to describe landscapes
(J) Space Language
Use formal and informal language to support writing recounts, use rules to spell words with ant and ent endings and add adverbials to sentences order and sequence sentences punctuated using semi-colons
(K) Space Poems
Read and write poems using figurative language about the Moon, Sun and stars, investigate spellings of words with ant and ent endings and use commas to clarify meanings in sentences
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