KS2 - Year 6 - English

Year 6

Reading & Comprehension (6 lessons)
SATs-focused throughout: precise retrieval practice, inference using multiple quotations, comparing characters and texts, analysing language for effect, and summarising/predicting from extended texts, finishing with a full SATs-style assessment paper. Fully resourced with slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and vocabulary activities.

Poetry (6 lessons)
Takes pupils into genuinely challenging territory — comparing poems on a theme, analysing form and structure, and using sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance) — before writing and performing an original free verse poem. Complete slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and embedded keyword practice.

Non-Fiction Writing (6 lessons)
Covers writing for audience and purpose, sophisticated balanced discussion, cohesive devices, and biography writing, with a strong focus on fully independent editing. Each lesson includes slides, worksheet, lesson plan, and vocabulary activity set.

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (6 lessons)
SATs GPS content: active and passive voice, the subjunctive form, colons and semicolons, and hyphens for clarity, finishing with a full SATs-style GPS assessment paper. Fully resourced with slides, worksheets, lesson plans, and keyword activities.