English Year Six Planning Term One
Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Six in Key Stage Two covering a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry topics and themes
Theme One
Mysteries
Explore the structure and content of stories from a range of different genres, research and write news reports about a mysterious event, investigate figurative language used in narrative language, spell words with suffixes and punctuate sentences using commas, semi-colons and colons.
(A) Detective Stories
Investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences
(B) Science Fiction
Select characters, settings and events to use when writing science fiction stories, identify words that contain the ible suffix and practise using commas and conjunctions to write complex sentences
(D) News Reports
Investigate some of the different ways that news stories about mysteries are reported and presented using journalistic writing, explore rules for adding the suffixes able and ible to word roots and practise using a colon to introduce a list in a sentence
(C) Story Plots
Investigate how authors use different settings, characters and events to advance the plot in a story from a specific genre
(E) School Reports
Research and write a news report using journalistic writing about a mysterious school event, learn rules for adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in fer and use more complex punctuation marks to write sentences
(F) Poem Mysteries
Explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings, practise adding vowel suffixes to words ending in fer and learn when to use semi-colons to punctuate lists based on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Theme Two
Kings and Queens
Investigate how to write a biography of a king or queen, write play scripts to perform scenes about monarchs, practise using simile and metaphor in poem about kings and queens, explore the spellings of homophones and compose sentences using expanded noun phrases and modal verbs.
(G) Royal Biographies
Investigate different non-fiction texts about the lives of royal monarchs from British history by writing an example biography for a Tudor king or queen
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3D Shape Labels
Identify and record how to label models and illustrations of some different 3D shapes to indicate their special properties
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Adventure Plays
practise composing and performing play scripts using the correct structure and format to illustrate adventures to different locations
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Shakespeare Plays
Investigate the structure and format of different scenes extracted from plays by William Shakespeare to use for drama performances
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Greek Myths
Practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece