Lesson Four – Family Sentences

This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to compose and record different sentences to describe what some characters might say in a scene from a story about special things that might happen in a family.
The class can practise using the selected dialogue sentences to start planning a role-play drama related to the story of Five Minutes Peace.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to compose and record different sentences to describe what some characters might say in a scene from a story about special things that might happen in a family
Activities in this teaching pack include templates to select and record different sentences to describe what characters might say in a scene from a story about family life in example speech bubbles that can be used when role-playing scenes from a story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose different sentences to describe what characters might say in a scene from a story about family life.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise using descriptive vocabulary to describe settings in stories, identify and spell words with the same endings and select vocabulary to complete sentences. 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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