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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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Pied Piper
Investigate the language style and structure of a narrative poem to retell the story using prose and other poetry styles
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Seasons
Select figurative imagery for use in poetry composing similes and metaphors to describe different seasons of the year
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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
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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
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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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New Start
Explore how to prepare for and deal with some of the new events and special occasions that someone might experience in life
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Viking Settlement
Explore how the Vikings settled and built communities in Britain in the past by referencing their culture and traditions
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Changing Seasons
Investigate changes that can happen to the natural world during the four seasons of the year and reflect on similar changes that can occur in people’s lives
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Chinese Dragons
Select and combine different mouldable and other materials to create masks representing dragons that can be worn during a performance dance