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

  • Weather Facts

    Weather Facts

    Explore how to read and write explanations to explain how and why different forms of weather can occur in a range of locations around the world

  • Poem Mysteries

    Poem Mysteries

    Explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings

  • School Storms

    School Storms

    Read and analyse the structure and content of recounts about the weather and write sentences from different viewpoints

  • Story Ingredients

    Story Ingredients

    Explore narrative structures and use of vocabulary by an established children’s writer, identify and spell words with silent letters and convert sentences between the third and first person

  • Story Places

    Story Places

    Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary

  • Suffix Word Boards

    Suffix Word Boards

    Model and record how to add suffixes to different word roots and illustrate changes to their spellings and meanings

  • Zoo Visitors

    Zoo Visitors

    Read and write different instructions that can be used to support visitors to a zoo

  • Animal Facts

    Animal Facts

    Explore and record the structure of alphabetically ordered texts using encyclopaedia entries about different animals

  • Royal Biographies

    Royal Biographies

    Investigate different non-fiction texts about the lives of royal monarchs from British history by writing an example biography for a Tudor king or queen

  • Prefix Word Sums

    Prefix Word Sums

    Investigate, match and spell different words that are spelt with a range of prefixes

  • School Newspaper

    School Newspaper

    Plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language

  • Robots and Adventures

    Robots and Adventures

    Investigate the text structures and content of explanations and recounts and plan and write matching texts

  • Story Fables

    Story Fables

    Explore and describe some of the different characters settings and events that can feature in traditional fables that teach the reader a moral lesson

  • Shape Areas

    Shape Areas

    Identify and model how to find the areas of different shapes by multiplying measured widths and lengths using standard methods of calculation

  • School Happenings

    School Happenings

    Investigate how to compose and publish recounts to describe and illustrate some of the special things that can happen in a school