Primary English Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans

What's Included in Our English Teaching Resources?

Our ready-to-teach primary English resources provide comprehensive, structured support for busy primary teachers like you. Each unit includes:

• Clear, curriculum-aligned lesson plans

• Slides and presentations for whole-class teaching

• Differentiated worksheets and printable activities

• Reading and writing tasks linked to a variety of texts and genres

• Assessment guidance and ideas

Our resources have engaging whole-class teaching inputs, followed by a range of reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. This way, you can keep your class engaged and interested throughout the whole lesson.

Primary English Resources Covering Every Area of the English Curriculum

PlanBee’s primary English resources cover every key area of the English Curriculum, including:

• Reading comprehension

• Vocabulary, grammar punctuation

• Spoken language

• Writing

• Composition

• Transcription

• English planning based on books

Our primary English resources are designed to support every learner, from Year 1 to Year 6. From pupils who are just beginning to read and write, to those developing more advanced comprehension and composition skills, you'll find engaging, carefully structured, ready-to-teach lessons. If you're teaching phonics, grammar, creative writing or reading for meaning, our resources provide the support and progression required for all abilities.

Why Teachers Love Our Primary English Resources

We’ve helped thousands of teachers save time and feel more confident delivering English.

• You don’t need to spend hours planning – everything is ready to go.
  
  

• Lessons are designed by teachers who understand what works best in the classroom.
  
  

• Activities are engaging, purposeful and varied – no boring worksheets here!
  
  

• You can mix and match lessons or follow a complete scheme of work.
  
  

• All our resources promote creativity, independence, and real understanding.

Our English teaching resources cover a wide range of topics, from word recognition and sentence building to advanced grammar, persuasive writing and guided reading. We also include varied activity types to keep lessons engaging, including group discussions, creative writing prompts, reading challenges and hands-on grammar tasks. These aren't just worksheets – they’re complete lessons that support a deep understanding and help your class get enthusiastic about your English lessons.

Save Even More Time with a PlanBee Subscription

If you’re dipping into our primary English resources regularly, it’s worth checking out our PlanBee subscription. It gives you:

• Access to all our English teaching resources – and every other subject too, so you can choose the resources you need

• Differentiated activities to support adaptive teaching – activities for every learner

• Early access to new schemes and resources

• Helps save money and still get high-quality resources

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What Makes Our English Teaching Resources So Useful?

We get it – you're juggling planning, marking, meetings and more. That’s where our resources come in. Every single one of our English teaching resources is designed to be:

• Easy to follow, with clear learning objectives and guidance

• Fully prepared

• Differentiated, so you can support all learners with confidence

• Flexible enough for mixed-year teaching or to slot into your existing curriculum

Explore More of Our Subjects

Expanding your curriculum is simple with our comprehensive range of fully planned, ready-to-teach lessons. We cover:

• Maths – Teach about Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division, Statistics & Data Handling, Number & Place Value and others

• Geography – Teach your pupils about Physical Geography, Continents and Countries, Rivers and Coasts, Biomes and Climate Zones

• History – Lessons on Britain Up To 1066, Britain Beyond 1066, Events Beyon, Living Memory and Changes in Living Memory

• Art – Inspire creativity with exciting projects on Landscape Art, Art and Design and Nature Art

• Design & Technology - The most creative and engaging DT project ideas

• PSHE – Lessons on Well-Being, Relationships, and Social Awareness

• Science — Animals including humans, Plants, Forces, Light and Sound

• Religious Education - Lessons on Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism,

Primary English Resources FAQs

Are your English teaching resources matched to the English National Curriculum?

Yes, all our English teaching resources are designed to align with the English National Curriculum objectives from Year 1 to Year 6. We carefully map out objective coverage, and knowledge and skills progression, for each of our schemes of work. You can see this information on the free overview available with every English teaching pack.

Can I teach these lessons in a mixed-age class?

Many of our English schemes are designed to be taught in mixed-age classes, making them perfect if you’re teaching a class covering multiple year groups. However, any of our schemes of work can be adapted to the needs of your class thanks to the range of differentiated activities available as standard within each lesson. With scaffolded activities as well as extension tasks, it’s easy to match activities to the needs of different learners.

What’s included in a typical English unit?

Each English scheme of work comes fully prepared and ready to teach. Our standard English units contain between five and seven lessons, with each lesson containing an easy-to-follow lesson plan, engaging slides for the whole-class teaching input and a range of activity ideas and printable resources to support children’s independent learning tasks.

Each unit also comes with an overview (a medium-term plan) so that you can see at a glance what is covered within the scheme of work, as well as an editable assessment grid to track learning.

Do you offer assessments with your primary English resources?

Each of our English lesson packs comes with an editable assessment grid, which is linked to the three assessment questions listed on the lesson plan. This allows you to track learning across the scheme of work in whichever way works best for you.