Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record collections of powerful adjectives to describe a character in a story using a thesaurus to list sets of matching synonyms for words that can form expanded noun phrases in example sentences about what could happen in a narrative story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record collections of powerful adjectives to describe different characters in a story using expanded noun phrases.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories, practise identifying words with irregular past tense spellings and write sentences to describe story characters using conjunctions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.