Lesson One – Homophone Sentences
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to select and record matching homophones that can be used to complete sentences describing different houses for sale in the school’s neighbourhood.
The class can identify and explain how an advert has been constructed using persuasive language to compel the reader to perform an action such as buy a house for sale.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to select and record matching homophones that can be used to complete sentences describing different houses for sale in the school’s neighbourhood
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how an advert has been constructed using persuasive language to compel the reader to perform an action and a set of differentiated worksheets to select and record matching homophones to use when writing sentences describing different houses for sale.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record matching homophones that can be used to complete sentences describing different houses for sale.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to compose and edit adverts using persuasive language to sell a range of different houses as estate agents, investigate the spellings and meanings of of words that are homophones and practise selecting powerful adjectives to use when writing expanded noun phrases. 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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