Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and define vocabulary words that have been used to describe different actions and movements connected to a specific sport, a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to practise adding the suffix ing to word roots with no spelling changes to build words that can be used to describe different sports and a set of cards for support ability levels to match words with the suffix ing to word roots.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add the suffix ing to word roots with no spelling changes to describe different sport races.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select and combine descriptive vocabulary words to compose and perform poems describing actions and events connected to competing in different sports. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.