Lesson Two – Sentence Changes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to choose some powerful words that can be used to replace weaker adjectives and prepositions in noun phrases about special places to visit.
The class can select and record synonyms for different descriptive vocabulary that have been used in a poem to describe some different mystery locations.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to choose some powerful words that can be used to replace weaker adjectives and prepositions in noun phrases about special places to visit
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets can use vocabulary words in a poem to describe special places and differentiated worksheets to model how to use powerful words to replace some weaker adjectives and prepositions in example sentences about special places to visit.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to choose powerful words to replace weaker adjectives and prepositions in noun phrases about special places to visit.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to create descriptive images to use in poetry to describe different places in the local community, identify and record the double meanings of words that are homonyms and build expanded noun phrases using powerful adjectives and prepositions. 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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