Key Stage One : English : Year Two Planning : Term One


Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in English for Year Two in Key Stage One covering stories with familiar settings, poems with patterned language, writing explanations and stories set in fantasy worlds

Theme One : Family Pets

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Family Pets : Unit One : New Pets

Explore descriptive language used in stories about family life, practise spelling words with le endings and write sentences using the correct punctuation

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Family Pets : Unit Two : Pet Shop

Investigate sentence structures and vocabulary words used in stories with familiar settings, practise spelling words with common endings and use adjectives to write expanded noun phrases

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Family Pets : Unit Three : Unusual Pets

Plan and write a narrative story about keeping an unusual animal as a pet, learn spellings of words with the /i:/ sound spelt ey and write descriptive sentences using expanded noun phrases

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Family Pets : Unit Four : Wild Animals

Write and edit a narrative story about keeping a wild animal as a family pet, spell words ending in y and select descriptive vocabulary to describe story settings

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Family Pets : Unit Five : Wild Pets

Investigate words used to describe animals in poems with patterned language, explore words with gn, kn and wr initial spellings and select vocabulary for expanded noun phrases

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Family Pets : Unit Six : Mystery Pets

Write and edit poems about animals using patterned language, practise spelling words with the /s/ sound spelt c and write expanded noun phrases

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Theme Two : Travel (available shortly)

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Travel : Unit One : Bus Trips

Compare explanations about how to make journeys by bus, match pairs of words that are homophones and use commas to separate items in a list

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Travel : Unit Two : Transport

Research and present information about forms of transport, complete sentences using there and their and use the conjunctions and and or to link sentence clauses

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  • Sandwiches
    Select and prepare a range of different foods to use when making a sandwich for a picnic
  • Clock Times
    Identify, record and compare times on analogue clock faces using a selection of time intervals for hours and minutes
  • Travel Trips
    Practise linking sentence clauses about different ways to travel and forms of transport using the conjunctions and and or
  • Changing World
    Identify and describe some of the changes to the natural world that can occur during the four seasons of the year