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

  • Story Swaps

    Story Swaps

    Practise writing and editing an alternative version of a traditional story by swapping characters, settings and plot events

  • Food and Drink Adverts

    Food and Drink Adverts

    Practise writing and performing a television commercial to advertise and persuade families to buy a special food product for sale in a supermarket

  • Story Changes

    Story Changes

    Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author

  • Easter Story Poems

    Easter Story Poems

    Practise composing and publishing different types of poems that use line structures and vocabulary to illustrate scenes in the Easter story

  • Sand Horses

    Sand Horses

    Investigate how authors illustrate characters and narrate plot events using direct speech when writing stories

  • School Reports

    School Reports

    Research and write a news report using journalistic writing containing fact and opinion about a mysterious school event

  • Football Teams

    Football Teams

    Investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions

  • School Letters

    School Letters

    Practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes

  • 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 Greek News

    Ancient Greek News

    Investigate how to format and structure reports to publish in newspapers illustrating some of the historical events that happened during the Ancient Greek civilization

  • 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

  • Weather Changes

    Weather Changes

    Practise composing and presenting different types of poems to illustrate how the weather can make changes to the world

  • Spooky Night

    Spooky Night

    Select and use descriptive language in poetry to describe spooky sights and shadows that might be seen in a bedroom at night during Halloween

  • French Schools

    French Schools

    Learn and practise speaking and writing French vocabulary and word phrases to describe some of the special things that can happen and are used in a school

  • French Sports

    French Sports

    Practise speaking and writing French vocabulary words and phrases to describe some different sports and games