Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain ways that a discursive text about an environmental issue concerning river pollution is written differently from other texts and a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and match the correct spelling of words ending in cial and tial that follow different rules.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and use rules to spell different words with cial and tial endings to utilise when discussing environmental issues.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue, learn rules to spell words with cial and tial endings and use commas to separate phrases and clauses in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.