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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
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Story Chapter
Plan and write an extra chapter for an adventure story by a significant author to match the structure and style
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Story Journal
Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of homonyms and practise extending sentences using commas
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Story Structures
Investigate and model how to use narrative structures employed by authors when telling adventure stories
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Story Enrichment
Identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases
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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
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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
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Lady of Shalott
Explore how poets use figurative language to describe settings and characters when narrating a story
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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
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Zoo Visitors
Read and write different instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo
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World Explorers
Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world
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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
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Friendships
Practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life
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Length Measurements
Practise estimating, measuring and converting the lengths of different objects working with measurements in millimetres, centimetres and metres