Description
Start the school year with a clear, organised and classroom-ready Year 1 English Term 1 unit.
This resource has been designed to help Year 1 students build confidence with speaking, listening, retelling, recounting personal experiences and creating simple written texts. The unit supports students as they move from oral rehearsal and shared writing into independent sentence writing, simple recounts and short oral presentations.
The pack includes a complete 10-week teaching sequence with 50 detailed lesson plans, so you can spend less time planning and more time actually teaching. No curriculum spaghetti. No Sunday-night panic scroll. Just a clear sequence you can follow, adapt and use.
What’s Included
This downloadable resource includes:
Full Term 1 Year 1 English unit plan
10-week teaching overview
50 complete lesson plans
Weekly learning focus
Learning intentions and success criteria
Assessment overview
Suggested mentor text types
Teaching notes
Workstation-based lesson structure
Differentiation suggestions
Formative assessment opportunities
Teacher prompts and support ideas
Unit Focus
Students will explore:
Speaking and listening routines
Turn-taking and partner talk
Retelling familiar stories
Identifying characters, settings and events
Sharing personal experiences
Sequencing events using first, next, then and finally
Writing simple sentences
Using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces
Planning and writing a personal recount
Giving a short oral presentation
Colour-Coded Workstation System
Each lesson is designed to work with the Ready2Teach colour-coded workstation model:
Station Purpose
Orange Station Whole-class introduction, explicit modelling and shared learning
Blue Station Teacher-led small-group instruction
Yellow Station Partner or group work
Green Station Independent writing or reading task
Red Station Hands-on literacy, word work and fine-motor activities
Purple Station Digital or audio-based task
White Station Movement, oral language, drama and regulation
This structure helps students practise English skills in different ways while keeping routines predictable and easy to manage.
Perfect For
This resource is ideal for:
Year 1 classroom teachers
Early years teachers wanting a complete Term 1 English plan
Teachers using literacy rotations or workstations
Graduate teachers needing clear lesson structure
Relief teachers working from a planned unit
Schools wanting consistent English planning across Year 1
Teachers looking for Australian Curriculum-aligned English planning
Australian Curriculum Alignment
This unit is designed to support Year 1 English learning expectations from the Australian Curriculum, including oral language, interaction skills, comprehension, text creation, retelling, simple sentence writing and short presentations.
File Format
Downloadable DOCX file
Editable, printable and easy to adapt for your classroom needs.
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