Activities in this teaching pack include templates to select and record different sentences to describe what characters might say in a scene from a story about family life in example speech bubbles that can be used when role-playing scenes from a story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose different sentences to describe what characters might say in a scene from a story about family life.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using descriptive vocabulary to describe settings in stories, identify and spell words with the same endings and select vocabulary to complete sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.