This English teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using commas between items in example lists in sentences describing some different mini-beasts that can be found living in the school grounds.

The class can explain and model how to write sentences for a non-fiction text about mini-beasts in comparison to constructing similar sentences for a narrative story.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using commas between items in example lists in sentences describing some different mini-beasts that can be found living in the school grounds

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and record how to use commas correctly to punctuate items in sentence lists describing some of the different mini-beasts that can be found in a specific types of habitats.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to use commas between items in sentence lists describing different mini-beasts.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to devise a class information book that uses alphabetical ordering to describe different mini-beasts that might live in the school grounds, identify and spell words with the or and ar phonemes and punctuate lists in sentences using commas. 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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