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

  • Great Flood

    Great Flood

    Compose and edit an informal recount about a significant weather event that could happen at the school

  • Story Structures

    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

  • Story Changes

    Story Changes

    Read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

  • Environment Debates

    Environment Debates

    Practise composing a selection of discussion texts to debate issues surrounding environmental concerns and protections

  • Letter Frames

    Letter Frames

    Practise using writing frames to structure and format a set of letters for a range of special purposes and functions

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    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

  • Story Reports

    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

  • Suffix Word Definitions

    Suffix Word Definitions

    Investigate and illustrate the spellings and meanings of word roots that have been changed by the addition of different suffixes

  • Plurals Word Matching

    Plurals Word Matching

    Identify and record how to convert a range of singular nouns into plurals when using a set of matching spelling rules

  • Roman Myths

    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

  • Places Word Ladders

    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

  • Food Recipes

    Food Recipes

    Compose and present sets of instructions about how to follow recipes to prepare a range of foods for different meals and celebrations

  • Number Values

    Number Values

    Investigate and record the place value of the numerical digits in different numbers to thousands by partitioning, ordering and comparing

  • Class Newspapers

    Class Newspapers

    Identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school

  • Story Journal

    Story Journal

    Plan and write a story using different narrative techniques, identify the meanings of homonyms and practise extending sentences using commas

  • Story Places

    Story Places

    Investigate some of the narrative techniques that can be used by authors to describe story settings