Lesson Four – Story Word Ladders

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how to select and order special vocabulary words between strong and weak to describe the appearance and behaviour of a character in a story.
The class can identify and make predictions about how the narrative might develop in a fantasy story by a significant author.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record how to select and order special vocabulary words between strong and weak to describe the appearance and behaviour of a character in a story
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and order a selection synonyms for a range of different vocabulary words between strong and weak that can be used to describe a character in a fantasy story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to order vocabulary words between strong and weak to describe a character in a story.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how authors describe and use characters in a fantasy story, use apostrophes to show possession to punctuate descriptive phrases and practise punctuating sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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