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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