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

  • 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

  • School Debates

    School Debates

    Explain and model how to compose a range of discussion texts to debate and present arguments about issues that are important to life in a school

  • Story Enrichment

    Story Enrichment

    Identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases

  • School News

    School News

    Investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports and stories about current events

  • Family Life

    Family Life

    Identify and record how to use fronted adverbials to indicate where, when or how things happened in sentences about family events and experiences

  • Story Characters

    Story Characters

    Explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses

  • Greek Myths

    Greek Myths

    Practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece

  • Weather Forecasts

    Weather Forecasts

    Identify, describe and compare the effect of some different types of weather on a range of locations that can be found around the world

  • Number Millions

    Number Millions

    Investigate and compare numbers in millions by identifying the numerical place values of their matching sets of digits

  • Hundredths and Tenths

    Hundredths and Tenths

    Explain and record how to illustrate the place value of the sets of matching digits in numbers to two decimal places