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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Weather Facts
Explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of weather can occur in a range of locations around the world
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Poem Mysteries
Explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings
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School Storms
Read and analyse the structure and content of recounts about the weather and write sentences from different viewpoints
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Story Ingredients
Explore narrative structures and use of vocabulary by an established children’s writer, identify and spell words with silent letters and convert sentences between the third and first person
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Story Places
Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary
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Suffix Word Boards
Model and record how to add suffixes to different word roots and illustrate changes to their spellings and meanings
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Zoo Visitors
Read and write different instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo
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Animal Facts
Explore and record the structure of alphabetically ordered texts using encyclopaedia entries about different animals
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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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Prefix Word Sums
Investigate, match and spell different words that are spelt with a range of prefixes
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School Newspaper
Plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language
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Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
Explore how and why the Ancient Egyptians constructed and used different pyramids and tombs to reflect their beliefs about the afterlife
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Earthquakes
Investigate and record some of the different causes and effects of earthquakes on locations around the world
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Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
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Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties