Lesson Three – School Happenings

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and model how to add fronted adverbials to say when, how or where things happened in sentences about some of the different things that might happen in a story set in a school.

The class explore some of the main themes in a story and explain how they are illustrated in the actions of the characters through a range of narrative scenes.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and model how to add fronted adverbials to say when, how or where things happened in sentences about some of the different things that might happen in a story set in a school

Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to practise adding fronted adverbials to say when things happened in sentences about schools for support ability levels and when, how or where for core and extension ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add fronted adverbials to say when, how or where things happened in sentences about schools.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore the narrative structure and characters that feature in a story about school and friendship, add suffixes to word roots and write sentences with more than one clause. 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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