Lesson Two – Mystery Lists
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using colons and semi-colons to compose lists in sentences about a range of different mysterious characters and creatures.
The class can suggest how poets can structure their poems and use descriptive vocabulary to sequence and illustrate events in the narrative sequence of events.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using colons and semi-colons to compose lists in sentences about a range of different mysterious characters and creatures
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how poets use figurative language to describe people, places and events in a narrative poem and a set of differentiated cards and worksheets to build lists related to the story of the Highwayman using colons and semi-colons to link independent clauses.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use colons and semi-colons to compose lists in sentences about mysterious characters and creatures.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and adapt vocabulary used in a narrative poem to describe characters and settings. 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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Ordering and Changing
Explore and record how to order three digit numbers by the place value of their digits and how the digits in a number change their numerical values when finding ten and one hundred more or less
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Changing Hundreds
Explore and record the matching number sums that are one hundred more and less than different three digit numbers to show changes to the place values of their numerical digits
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Digit Changes
Identify and record the matching number sums that are ten less than different three digit numbers by illustrating changes to the values of their hundreds, tens and ones digits
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Changing Numbers
Identify and record number sums that are ten more than different three digit numbers using abacus diagrams to model their changing values