This English Bundle includes four ready-to-teach schemes of work built around the same theme, giving children a variety of meaningful entry points into the English curriculum.

Each of the 20 lessons within this pack has been written by experienced teachers and contains:

• An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
• An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
• A main activity with three-way differentiation for adaptive teaching
• An alternative activity
• An overview (medium-term plan) so you can see the scheme contents at a glance
• An assessment grid to track learning

• Great Fire of London: Newspaper Reports
• Great Fire of London: Diary Entries
• Vlad and the Great Fire of London
• Great Fire of London: London Past and Present

Reading – Comprehension

• Listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
• Discussing the sequence of events in books and how items of information are related
• Becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales
• Being introduced to non-fiction books that are structured in different ways
• Drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher
• Making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
• Answering and asking questions
• Predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
• Participating in discussion about books, poems and other works, taking turns and listening to what others say
• Explaining and discussing their understanding of books, poems and other material, both those listened to and those read independently

Spoken Language

• Listening and responding appropriately to adults and their peers
• Asking relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
• Articulating and justifying answers, arguments and opinions

Writing – Composition

• Writing about real events
• Writing for different purposes
• Planning or saying out loud what they are going to write about
• Writing down ideas and key words, including new vocabulary
• Making simple additions, revisions and corrections to their own writing
• Evaluating their writing with the teacher and other pupils
• Re-reading to check that their writing makes sense and that verbs to indicate time are used correctly and consistently, including the continuous form
• Proof-reading to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Reading aloud what they have written with appropriate intonation to make the meaning clear

Writing – Transcription (Spelling)

• Applying spelling rules and guidance as listed in English Appendix 1

Writing – Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

• Learning how to use familiar and new punctuation correctly, including full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms and the singular possessive
• Using expanded noun phrases to describe and specify
• Using the present and past tenses correctly and consistently, including the progressive form
• Using subordination (when, if, that, because) and coordination (or, and, but)
• Using the grammar for Year 2 as set out in English Appendix 2
• Using some features of written Standard English
• Using and understanding grammatical terminology from English Appendix 2 when discussing their writing

English Appendix Objectives

• Expanded noun phrases for description and specification
• Subordination (when, if, that, because) and coordination (or, and, but)
• Correct and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing
• Use of the progressive form of verbs in the present and past tense to mark actions in progress