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

(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

(C) Story Plots

Investigate how authors use different settings, characters and events to advance the plot in a story from a specific genre

(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

(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

  • Written Addition Sums

    Written Addition Sums

    Practise using standard methods of calculation for columnar addition to solve problems when finding the sums of pairs of different numbers

  • Ocean Crossing

    Ocean Crossing

    Select and add different pairs of money amounts using a standard written method of calculation to choose some of the special items that are needed for a sea voyage across an ocean

  • Theme Park Rides

    Theme Park Rides

    Identify and model how to use addition standard written methods to calculate the length and cost of building different theme park rollercoaster rides

  • Addition True and False

    Addition True and False

    Investigate and illustrate how to use standard written methods to check addition calculations of three, four and five digit numbers including decimals