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

  • Pancake Shopping

    Pancake Shopping

    Explain and model how to use descriptive vocabulary in adverts persuading families to buy different pancakes from the shops to celebrate Shrove Tuesday

  • Roman Empire

    Roman Empire

    Identify and model how to compose sets of instructions for Romans to follow when expanding their empire and civilization around the world

  • Party Celebrations

    Party Celebrations

    Explain and illustrate how to compose sets of instructions for families to follow when making preparations for a special party celebration

  • Family Homes

    Family Homes

    Investigate and illustrate how to structure and format explanations describing why and how some different things work in a family home

  • Story Structures

    Story Structures

    Investigate and model how to use narrative structures employed by authors when telling adventure stories

  • Roald Dahl Story Characters

    Roald Dahl Story Characters

    Research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories

  • Animal Fables

    Animal Fables

    Identify and describe the sequence of events and moral lessons that are presented in different fables with animals as the main characters

  • 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

  • Sport News

    Sport News

    Practise composing and publishing news reports to describe some of the special events that can happen at sporting competitions and tournaments

  • Story News

    Story News

    Explore and model how to compose news reports using journalistic writing to outline some of the narrative events in a fiction story

  • Ancient Egyptian Tiles

    Ancient Egyptian Tiles

    Design and produce tiles that can represent Ancient Egyptian culture and traditions by adding shapes, patterns and attachments to clay models

  • Old Testament

    Old Testament

    Explore the structure, special stories and significant characters that feature in different books that are part of the Old Testament