Activities in this teaching pack include sets of differentiated cards to select and record how pairs of words can be contracted together using apostrophes for core and extension ability levels and where to add apostrophes correctly in contractions for support ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore pairs of words that can be contracted together using apostrophes to use when describing story characters.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore the narrative structure and sequence of events in a story by a significant author with animals as the main characters. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.