Lesson Three – Changing Paragraphs

This English teaching pack for Year Six in Key Stage Two gets the children to select and change paragraphs from a biography to match the structure of different non-fiction texts

The class can identify and record how to compose different sentences containing facts or opinions about some of the kings and queens that have ruled Britain in the past.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and change paragraphs from a biography to match the structure of different non-fiction texts

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text about Henry VIII to explore the structure of biographies and a worksheet to practise converting paragraphs from a biography to match different texts.

The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how to format and structure a specific type of non-fiction text and compose sentences containing facts or opinions.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate different non-fiction texts about the lives of royal monarchs from British history by writing an example biography for a Tudor monarch that might have ruled Britain in the past. 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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