Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to practise adding interrupting thoughts to sentences about family life by using brackets and dashes and a set of cards for support ability levels to match how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to example sentences about what can happen in a family.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add interrupting thoughts to sentences about family life by using brackets and dashes.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life, identify the meanings and spellings of confusing words and use the perfect form of verbs to indicate timing. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.