English Medium Term plan – Spring 2
Driver: History
Main learning Challenge:
Week 1
Question
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Text: The Watertower
Week 5
Week 6
and 7
Can you make the world modern?
What would the world be without
steam?
Y5 – Can you write a narrative linking
paragraphs for time and place?
Y6 – Can you write a narrative varying
sentence structure?
Y5 – Can you write persuasively using modal
verbs?
Y6 – Can you write persuasively using the
subjunctive form?
The Watertower
The Watertower
The Watertower
Can you be a
modern day poet?
Y5 – Can you write a
poem using grammar
and vocabulary for
effect?
Y6 – Can you write a
poem using the
correct grammatical
structures, features
and vocab?
The Highwayman
Diary/Descriptive writing
Fiction – Story Writing
Persuasive Writing
Y5 and Y6 – Poetry
Challenge write
Write a diary about the start of the
industrial revolution – Link to History
Explanation text – Link to Science –
Dissolving
Report on industrial revolution – Link to
History
Write a different
style poem
Writing target
Y5 – Grammar and vocabulary for impact
Y6 – grammatical structures, features and
vocabulary.
Y5 – Link paragraphs – time and place
Y6 – Sentence structure
Y5 – Modal Verbs
Y6 – Subjunctive form
Y5 – Grammar and
Vocabulary
Y6 – Grammatical
structures
Reading Target
Choice
Y6 – Can you Show awareness of the writers’
Viewpoint/Interpretation
Y5 - Provide reasoned justifications for others’
views.
Organisation / Viewpoint
Context/Oral Retelling
Y5 – Can you learn
poems by heart?
Use strategies to
identify figurative
language.
English Learning
Challenge
Driver Text
Main writing
Why is water powerful?
Can you make the world modern?
Y5 – Can you write descriptively using
grammar and vocabulary for effect?
Y6 – Can you write descriptively using the
correct grammatical structures, features
and vocabulary?
Focus/Task
(pre-write/draft/final)
craft by commenting on use of language,
grammatical features and structure of texts?
Can you identify and discuss the conventions of
Justify Inferences with evidence
Y5 Can you read books that are structured in different
ways?
Identify themes and conventions
Y6 - Present a counter-argument in response to
others’ points of view.
English Medium Term plan – Spring 2
different text types?
Y5 – Can you Identify grammatical features used
Y6 – Can you recite a
range of poems?
 Y6 - Build on others’ ideas and opinions about
a text in discussion.
Provide reasoned justifications for their views.
Y5 - Participate in
by writer – rhetorical questions, varied sentence
lengths, varied sentence starters, empty words
– to impact on the reader?
discussions about books
that are read to them
and those they can read
for themselves, building
on their own and
others’ ideas and
challenging views
courteously.
Y6 - Become familiar
with a range of books,
including modern
fiction, poetry, plays
Basic Skills (SPaG)
Nelson Grammar
Units
Spoken Language
Y5 - , to add information
Y6 – grammatical structures, features and
vocabulary.
Y6 - :;,-
Y5 – Link paragraphs – time and place
Y6 – Sentence structure
Y6 - :;,-
Y5 – Vocabulary for impact and effect
Modal verbs
Y6 – Subjunctive form
Y6 - :;,-
Y5 – Unit 11
Y6- Unit 2
Y5 – Unit 5
Y6- Unit 8
Y5 – Unit 26
Y6- Unit 25
Questioning Interrogative forms using
auxiliaries – can, were, did? Who, Where,
Who, Why, What, Which, How, How much,
How often…
Explaining
I want to explain how, It begins with,
It happens because, One explanation
is, The evidence for this is
Connectives – so ,as a result, also,
therefore etc
Inferring/Deducing
Modal verbs – can/could, will/would,
must/ought etc I think that it might because,
The reason might be, I Imagine that, It could
be that, This happened because
Ask questions based on the Industrial
Revolution
Y5 – Can you develop your ideas and
Y5 – Can you develop your ideas and opinions,
providing relevant detail?
Y5 – Vocab for
impact/effect
Y6 – Grammatical
Structures, features
and vocab
Y6 - :;,Y5 – Unit 28
Y6-
English Medium Term plan – Spring 2
opinions, providing relevant detail?
Y6 – Can you explain ideas and opinions
giving reasons and evidence?
Link to Dissolving
Y6 – Can you explain ideas and opinions giving
reasons and evidence?
Y5 – Can you show that you understand the
main points, including the implied meaning in
discussion?
Y6 – Can you express possibilities using
hypothetical and speculative language?