English Teaching Resources

Discover schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Key Stage Two covering reading, writing transcription, writing composition, spoken language and vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

  • Human Body

    Human Body

    Practise using the correct text features when composing explanations about how and why different organs in the human body function

  • Robot Functions

    Robot Functions

    Identify and model how to structure and format explanation texts about why and how robots function to complete tasks in the world

  • School Story Writing

    School Story Writing

    Plan and write a story using familiar settings based on a book by a significant author about what might happen in a school

  • Story Plots

    Story Plots

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

  • Family Issues

    Family Issues

    Practise structuring and formatting a range of discussion texts to present arguments for or against issues that are important to a family

  • School Debates

    School Debates

    Explain and model how to compose a range of discussion texts to debate and present arguments about issues that are important to life in a school

  • Story Enrichment

    Story Enrichment

    Identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases

  • School News

    School News

    Investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports and stories about current events

  • Family Life

    Family Life

    Identify and record how to use fronted adverbials to indicate where, when or how things happened in sentences about family events and experiences

  • Story Characters

    Story Characters

    Explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses

  • Science Fiction

    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

  • Relationships

    Relationships

    Compose a selection of different types of poems using figurative language and poetry styles to illustrate relationships between friends and family members

  • 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