This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using speech marks to punctuate dialogue sentences from a fable that can be used to show character traits and narrative actions.

The class can explain how authors use dialogue to illustrate the actions and thoughts of characters in a story to advance the plot and conclude the narrative.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using speech marks to punctuate dialogue sentences from a fable that can be used to show character traits and narrative actions

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards for support ability levels to match and punctuate dialogue sentences from a fable to show character traits and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to write and punctuate dialogue sentences for a fable that can be used to show information and ideas about story characters.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use speech marks to punctuate dialogue sentences from a fable that can be used to show character traits.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and describe some of the different characters settings and events that can feature in traditional fables, identify families of words with common spellings and practise punctuating direct speech in 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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