English Year Six Planning Term Three
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
Fact and Fiction
Investigate how to compose stories matching different genres, practise writing recounts, explanations and speeches on a range of topics, explore spellings of words with suffix endings and model how to use different forms of punctuation when composing sentences.
(A) Story Structures
Investigate the common structures and features of a range of different types of stories and poems, practise adding suffixes to different word roots and use commas to punctuate sentences
(B) Story Library
Identify features of narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the structure of one type of writing, investigate and use spellings of words with silent letters and learn how to use semi-colons to link independent clauses in sentences
(C) Robots and Adventures
Investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts, explore and use spellings of words with cious and tious word endings and use colons to mark the boundary between sentence clauses
(D) Viewpoints
Practise using persuasive and discursive language to discuss and argue points of view in letters and magazine articles, identify and use rules to learn new spellings and practise using brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis in sentences
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Plants Database
Practise using a branching database to organise and interrogate data collected about flowering plants found in different habitats around the world
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Flower Gallery
Explore and model how to select, mix and use shades of different colours using a range of artwork techniques in a still life painting of a vase of flowers
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Pounds and Pence
Identify, compare and illustrate the value of different money amounts that have been recorded in pounds and pence
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Addition Calculations
Practise using standard written methods of addition calculation to solve a range of abstract and contextual problems working with sets of four and five digit numbers