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

  • 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