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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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values