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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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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Plurals Word Matching
Identify and record how to convert a range of singular nouns into plurals when using a set of matching spelling rules
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Roman Myths
Investigate the structure and language of narrative stories written as myths, practise adding the suffix ly to word roots and extend sentences using conjunctions to express cause
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Places Word Ladders
Practise making lists of synonyms for different adjectives to use in sentences describing some of the special places that can be found in the world
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Food Recipes
Compose and present sets of instructions about how to follow recipes to prepare a range of foods for different meals and celebrations
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Number Values
Investigate and record the place value of the numerical digits in different numbers to thousands by partitioning, ordering and comparing
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Class Newspapers
Identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school
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Story Journal
Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of homonyms and practise extending sentences using commas
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Story Places
Investigate some of the narrative techniques that can be used by authors to describe story settings