Welcome to our three-week fully resourced English planning based on ‘Omar, the Bees and Me’ by Helen Mortimer. The fifteen fully resourced English lessons have been specifically written for Year 2 children. Throughout the English scheme of work, the children will learn fascinating facts about bees and use their knowledge to write a non-chronological report about honey bees. Following this, your class will be buzzing with excitement when they get to make their own honey cake and write a set of instructions for other people to follow their recipe. Our English plans are a hive of resources: teaching videos intricately linked to the text covering grammar concepts, differentiated activities, whiteboard slides, word banks and a whole hive of visual prompts and scaffolding for the learners in your class. This fully resourced English scheme of work is beautiful as a stand-alone unit of work, or it might be just what you are looking for to link your English lessons to your topic if you are studying ‘Animals including humans’ or ‘Minibeasts’. Please note that this download is lesson 1 and lesson 2. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Welcome to our three-week fully resourced English planning based on ‘Omar, the Bees and Me’ by Helen Mortimer. These fifteen fully resourced English lessons have been specifically written for Year 1 children. Throughout the English scheme of work, the children will learn fascinating facts about bees and use their knowledge to write a persuasive poster to look after our bees! They will plant sunflower seeds to attract bees and then write a set of instructions for other people to follow in their excellent footsteps. The three weeks will culminate in the children writing a shape poem all about bees! Our English plans are buzzing with resources: teaching videos intricately linked to the text covering grammar concepts, differentiated activities, whiteboard slides, word banks and a whole hive of visual prompts and scaffolding for the learners in your class. This fully resourced English scheme of work is beautiful as a stand-alone unit of work, or it might be just what you are looking for to link your English lessons to your topic if you are studying ‘Animals including humans’ or ‘Minibeasts’. PLEASE NOTE that this download contains lesson 1 and lesson 2. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Year 2 teachers, it’s time to unwrap your Christmas gift! Enjoy the enchanting book, ‘Where Bjorn Belongs’ by Samuel Langley-Swain, through our creative English Christmas planning for Year 2. Your class will be writing letters to Father Christmas as the main character Arthur, promising to keep his new polar bear safe. They will be creating posters about the Arctic, thinking of creative ways to keep Bjorn – the polar bear in the story – cold and will even transform into Father Christmas through role play. So, take the pressure off the end of term and let the magic unfold! This is lesson one from the week’s scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Our Christmas gift to you, Year 1 teachers, is a free scheme of work based on the beautiful book, ‘Where Bjorn Belongs’ by Samuel Langley-Swain. Using our Christmas planning for Year 1, your class will be writing letters to Father Christmas as the main character, Arthur, asking for a new polar bear. They will be thinking of creative ways to keep the polar bear cold and will even be learning about the Arctic! So, take the pressure off the end of term and enjoy this gift of time. This is lesson one of the free week. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

This is a three-week English scheme of work based on ‘Vlad – and the – Great Fire of London’ by Kate and Sam Cunningham. The scheme includes 15 x 1 hour English lesson plans which will immerse your Year 2 children in the Great Fire of London topic whilst guiding them through coordination, subordination, statements, questions and exclamations. The grammar tasks will lead your class into two extended pieces of writing – an explanation text and a diary entry. Within our scheme of work are all the resources you will need including teaching videos (intricately linked to the text), all activities to support your adaptive teaching, a plethora of oracy activities, WAGOLL texts, knowledge organisers, word mats and of course, our hand-drawn images. Please note that this is lessons 1 and 2 from the scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

We have three weeks – that’s 15 x 1 hour English lesson plans – ready for you to download! This English scheme of work is based around ‘Vlad - and the - Florence Nightingale Adventure’ by Kate and Sam Cunningham. Your Year 2 class will be immersed within the topics of Florence Nightingale and The Crimean War whilst learning about expanded noun phrases, coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. The children will complete a range of grammar games and tasks which lead into two extended pieces of writing – a non-chronological report and a narrative. Included in our scheme are all the resources you will need including teaching videos (intricately linked to the text), all activities to support your adaptive teaching, a plethora of oracy activities, WAGOLL texts, knowledge organisers, word mats and of course, our hand-drawn images. Please note that this download includes lessons 1 and 2 of the unit of work. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Welcome to our six-week English scheme of work for Upper Key Stage 2 (P6 and 7) based on ‘She Wolf’ by Dan Smith. We adore the powerful, female protagonist, Ylva: a fiercely strong, young Viking girl who is determined to avenge her mother’s death. Our 30 x 1 hour English lesson plans will take your class through the text whilst they complete a wide range of differentiated activities. With oracy tasks weaved throughout our entire scheme, your class will enthusiastically discuss the themes and language in the book. All of the grammar objectives are creatively linked to the text: expanded noun phrases, adverbials of time and place, conjunctive adverbs, relative clauses, subordinating conjunctions, figurative language and direct speech. The grammar tasks will provide the children with the skills they need to complete two extended pieces of writing - an explanation text and a predictive narrative. Like all our English schemes of work, this six-week unit includes bespoke teaching videos, WAGOLL texts and our hand-drawn images. This download is Week 1 of a 6-week scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Year 2, this one is for you! Here is one English lesson, part of a one-week scheme which can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website . This includes ALL the resources based on the wonderful book ‘Just Like Grandpa Jazz’ by Tarah L. Gear. Whilst focusing on capital letters, full stops and conjunctions, your children will be getting to know what Grandpa Jazz has in his ‘suitcase of treasures’, and where each treasure came from. The children will then be gathering four special items and creating their own ‘suitcase of treasures!’ Finally, the children will write a letter to Grandpa Jazz telling him all about the four treasures in their own suitcase. A fun-filled week designed to completely immerse your class in the story ‘Just like Grandpa Jazz’.

Year 1, this is especially for you! Here is one English lesson from a week’s scheme of work and ALL the resources based on the wonderful book ‘Just Like Grandpa Jazz’ by Tarah. L. Gear. Go to Teaching From Text’s website to download the full week for free! Whilst focusing on capital letters and full stops, your children will be sequencing the events from the story, playing a fun board game which is carefully linked to the text, writing a description of Grandpa Jazz, creating character stick puppets and writing a postcard from Frank to his mum. A fun-filled week designed to completely immerse your class in the story ‘Just like Grandpa Jazz’.

Let us introduce you to our six-week English scheme or work for Years 3 and 4 (P4 and 5) based on ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’ by Joe Todd Stanton. If you haven’t already seen this brilliant text, it’s a graphic novel based on Ancient Egypt. Our scheme of work contains 30 x 1 hour lesson plans which include differentiated activities for your class. We have progressive grammar lessons on conjunctions, adverbs, commands, commas, figurative language, expanded noun phrases and direct speech. Each grammar focus paves the pathway to three extended pieces of writing: instructional writing, a quest narrative and a play script. Also included within this English scheme of work are WAGOLL texts, bespoke teaching videos and our engaging hand-drawn images all meticulously linked to ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’. So, save yourself hours of time and download your six weeks of English planning now! Please note that this FREE download is Week 1 of a 6-week scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

n the dark depth of Second World War, with no end in sight, Dutch people in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands find themselves fighting their own war - the war against famine, enslavement and arrest. Edda, a teenage girl with a lion heart, finds herself doing anything she can to help the Dutch resistance fight back against their oppressors. We have written an eight-week English scheme of work to follow Edda’s journey fraught with peril and hardship. During the eight weeks, your class will be focusing on grammar techniques: apostrophes for possession, relative clauses, embedded clauses, colons, semicolons, conjunctive adverbs, adverbials of time and place, subordinating conjunctions and integrated speech. Our grammar learning opportunities feed directly into the four extended pieces of writing your class will create throughout the unit: a non-chronological report, a diary entry recount, a predictive narrative and a biography. Like all of our schemes, we write with two things in mind: outstanding lessons based around a high-quality text and teachers’ well-being. Every single resource is included for you: lessons plans, WAGOLLs, differentiated activities, teaching videos, knowledge organisers, word mats and even our very own hand-drawn images. Everything is completely editable so, if you should need to, you can tailor make the material to suit the needs of every single learner in your class. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Our Christmas gift to you is a 10 x 1 hour English scheme of work and ALL the resources you will need based on ‘The Woodcutter and the Snow Prince’ by Ian Eagleton. Whilst immersing themselves into this LGBTQ+ inclusive children’s book, your class will use figurative language to write both free verse and reverse poems, as well as intertwining their art skills to produce some stunning outcomes. So, relax and enjoy the last two weeks of term as you and your class follow the Snow Prince’s fight for happiness.

Our Christmas gift to you is a 10 x 1 hour English scheme of work and ALL the resources you will need based on ‘The Woodcutter and the Snow Prince’ by Ian Eagleton. Whilst immersing themselves into this LGBTQ+ inclusive children’s book, your class will use figurative language to write both free verse and reverse poems, as well as intertwining their art skills to produce some stunning outcomes. So, relax and enjoy the last two weeks of term as you and your class follow the Snow Prince’s fight for happiness.

This two-week scheme of work has been specifically designed and written for you to build a connection with your new class right from the beginning of the academic year. Through the book, ‘Sunflower Sisters’, each child will get to share their identity with you, share who they look up to and develop a strong sense of belonging in their new class. Through fun and creative English, DT and PSHE learning, the children will get to know you quickly which will propel the fundamental relationship between you and your class. This is week one of the two-week scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website for FREE!

This two-week scheme of work has been specifically designed and written for you to build a connection with your new class right from the beginning of the academic year. Through the book, ‘Sunflower Sisters’, each child will get to share their identity with you, share who they look up to and develop a strong sense of belonging in their new class. Through fun and creative English, DT and PSHE learning, the children will get to know you quickly which will propel the fundamental relationship between you and your class. This download is week one of the two-week scheme. The second week can be downloaded at www.teachingfromtext.com for FREE!

Welcome to Week 1 of our six-week English scheme of work based on ‘Boudica’s Army’ by Hilary Mckay written especially for Year 3 (aged 7 and 8)! ‘Boudica’s Army’ is perfectly pitched for Year 3: it follows Boudica’s rampage against the Romans in a mild and age appropriate way whilst focusing on an unlikely but heartwarming friendship between a Roman and Celt. Our 30 x 1 hour English lessons will take your class through the story with carefully planned differentiated grammar activities: pronouns, nouns, conjunctions, adverbs and fronted adverbials. Your class will complete three extended pieces of writing: an explanation text, a play script and a persuasive letter. This scheme of work will enable you to regain your work-life-balance! We have created every single resource for you: whiteboard slides, word mats, teaching videos, differentiated activities, posters for your Working Wall and our engaging hand-drawn images. So take a look at Week 1 of our six-week scheme of work, take the pressure off yourself and let the learning rampage through your classroom! The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

Teaching From Text is so excited to share with you **WEEK 1 **of our twelve-week scheme of work for Years 5 and 6 (aged 9-11) based around Katherine Rundell’s amazing book ‘The Explorer’. The complete English scheme of work contains 60 x 1 hour lesson plans and ALL the resources you will need! Your children will be gently paced through the book whilst they get to know the characters through a range of reading, grammar and writing activities. The children will complete four pieces of extended writing: a non-chronological report, a biography, narrative poetry and then you will have the choice of the final piece - either persuasive writing or an adventure narrative! You can enjoy a stress free adventure as we provide you with everything you will need: lesson plans, differentiated activities, example texts, teaching videos, whiteboard slides, posters for your Working Wall and gorgeous hand-drawn images! So let the adventure begin… The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website.

‘The Dog That Saved Christmas’ by Nicola Davies is the touching, diverse and insightful story about Jake, a young boy who struggles with the noises, lights, other people and the lack of routine which comes with the festive period. Christmas is a real nightmare for Jake, until he finds a lost dog and she becomes his trusty companion. The bond that quickly develops between the two of them changes Jake’s views and makes the difficulties he experiences, much more bearable. This unit, written for Years 3 and 4 (ages 7-9) contains 10 x 1 hour English lesson plans, differentiated and engaging activities, top teaching tips, hand-drawn images, bespoke teaching videos, all resources needed and opportunities for the development of reading, writing, PAG and oral skills – all of which focus on this diverse text. During this unit the children will have an opportunity to develop their retrieval and inference skills, create a festive cinquain (and therefore develop an understanding of word classes), perform poetry, write a set of instructions, participate in a purposeful debate, practise editing skills and create a festive letter of thanks. This unit of work can be downloaded for free as our Christmas gift to you, allowing you more time for self-care in those final build-up weeks to Christmas. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support this year and to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a restful New Year. Nicola and Davina

‘The Dog That Saved Christmas’ by Nicola Davies is the touching, diverse and insightful story about Jake, a young boy who struggles with the noises, lights, other people and the lack of routine which comes with the festive period. Christmas is a real nightmare for Jake, until he finds a lost dog and she becomes his trusty companion. The bond that quickly develops between the two of them changes Jake’s views and makes the difficulties he experiences, much more bearable. Teaching From Text have created this FREE two week long scheme of work, to help you with those final weeks before the Christmas holidays. This unit contains 10 x 1 hour English lesson plans, differentiated and engaging activities, top teaching tips, hand-drawn images, bespoke teaching videos, ALL resources needed and opportunities for the development of reading, writing, PAG and oral skills – all of which focus on this diverse text. This two-week English unit of work has been written for Years 5 and 6 (ages 9-11). During this unit the children will have an opportunity to develop their retrieval and inference skills, expand their understanding of figurative language and imagery, create free verse poems, perform poetry, develop their summarising skills, practise editing skills, create a persuasive speech with an understanding of emotive language and participate in a purposeful debate. This unit of work can be downloaded for free as our Christmas gift to you, allowing you more time for self-care in those final build-up weeks to Christmas. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support this year and to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a restful New Year! Nicola and Davina

Set in an unnamed country, this is a timely and important book, which illuminates the realities of life as a refugee. The first-person narration simply but powerfully conveys Shif’s terror at the violence and cruelty he encounters, as well as his sense of loss. The horrors he is escaping are all too real, but this is ultimately a story about the power of kindness and the strength of the human spirit. This six-week English unit of work has been written for Years 5 and 6 (aged 9-11). It contains 30 x 1 hour English lesson plans, which include differentiated, engaging activities and top teaching tips. The scheme includes all the resources you will need ready for you to print off including differentiated activities, success criteria, WAGOLLs (writing models) and word mats. During the unit many vocabulary and grammar techniques are covered: emotive and figurative language; semicolons, colons and dashes; and cohesive devises. The children will have regular shorter writing tasks such as letter writing from the main character to his little sister, a recount and free verse poetry. The children will also have a longer writing task (a biography of the main character) to embed their grammar learning. If that wasn’t enough, our scheme includes beautiful hand-drawn images and bespoke teaching videos to engage your children further. This heart-wrenching and uplifting book will stay with you and your class forever. *Please note that this is week 1 of the 6-week scheme. The whole scheme can be downloaded from Teaching From Text’s website. * Pushkin Children’s Books, author - Ele Fountain, cover designer - Katie Everson