Unit A – Story Places
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to word roots and learn how to join sentences using conjunctions based on The Angel of Nitshill Road, Anne Fine.
Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary
Lesson One : Word Building
Practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words that can be used when writing a story set in a specific location
Lesson Two : Word Signals
Identify and record whether to use the determinants a or an before different nouns in sentences related to a specific story setting
Lesson Three : Sentence Links
Model how to use the conjunctions because, but or when to link sentence clauses about things that might happen in a story set in a school
Lesson Four : School Scenes
Create and perform short dramas to illustrate some of the things that might happen between friends in a school to match a story with a familiar setting
Lesson Five : Story Settings
Select and list special vocabulary words that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different narrative stories
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Grams and Kilograms Measurements
Practise measuring, recording and calculating measurements in mass when working with and converting units in grams and kilograms
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World Animals
Identify and record how to use the correct determinants before nouns in sentences about animals that live in different habitats around the world
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Determinants Vowels and Consonants
Investigate and record how to compose sentences when using the correct determinants before nouns to match their initial vowels or consonants
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Weather Events
Investigate how to add and punctuate fronted adverbials in model sentences explaining when, how or where something happened in the weather