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
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School Issues
Explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, add suffixes to word roots and write sentences with more than one clause
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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
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Classic Fiction Extensions
Identify and record how to use relative clauses to extend sentences taken from a range of classic fiction stories by significant authors
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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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Great Flood
Compose and edit an informal recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school
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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
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Story Changes
Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
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Environment Debates
Practise composing a selection of discussion texts to debate issues surrounding environmental concerns and protections
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Letter Frames
Practise using writing frames to structure and format a set of letters for a range of special purposes and functions
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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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Story Reports
Investigate how authors describe and use characters in a fantasy story, use apostrophes to show possession to punctuate descriptive phrases and practise punctuating sentences
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Suffix Word Definitions
Investigate and illustrate the spellings and meanings of word roots that have been changed by the addition of different suffixes
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Bonfire Party
Select and use formal and informal language to compose invitations, letters and speeches for a family and town party on Bonfire Night
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Digit Combinations
Practise building and comparing a range of numbers by combining and matching sets of digits with different number values
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Letter Strings Words Sums
Learn the meanings and practise spelling words with common letter strings to work with when composing example sentences on different topics and themes
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Town Flag
Investigate and practise how to create different graphic shapes that can be utilised when producing a flag representing the local community