Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to compose sentences written in the past tense to describe holiday events and experiences, a set of cards for support ability levels to match word roots changed by the addition of the suffix ed with no spelling changes and worksheets for core and extension ability levels to practise adding the suffix ed to word roots.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add the suffix ed to different word roots with no changes to the spelling to make words that can be used to describe holiday events and experiences.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and write recounts to use on postcards reporting the weather experienced on different family holidays, practise adding the suffix ed to word roots to indicate the past tense in sentences and investigate punctuation that can be used for statements and questions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.