English Year Five Planning

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

  • Story Chapter

    Story Chapter

    Plan and write an extra chapter for an adventure story by a significant author to match the structure and style

  • Story Journal

    Story Journal

    Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of homonyms and practise extending sentences using commas

  • Story Structures

    Story Structures

    Investigate and model how to use narrative structures employed by authors when telling adventure stories

  • Story Enrichment

    Story Enrichment

    Identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases

  • Running Wild

    Running Wild

    Investigate the main characters, settings and sequence of events in an adventure story by a significant ’s author that takes place in a rainforest location

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    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

  • Lady of Shalott

    Lady of Shalott

    Explore how poets use figurative language to describe settings and characters when narrating a story

  • Story Ingredients

    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

  • Zoo Visitors

    Zoo Visitors

    Read and write different instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo

  • World Explorers

    World Explorers

    Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world

  • Story Library

    Story Library

    Identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing

  • Friendships

    Friendships

    Practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life

  • Length Measurements

    Length Measurements

    Practise estimating, measuring and converting the lengths of different objects working with measurements in millimetres, centimetres and metres