Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select different types of sentences to perform as the captain of a ship directing his pirates when asking questions, giving commands or shouting at the crew.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write statements, questions, exclamations, commands that might be used on board a pirate ship.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and follow sets of simple instructions, practise building words by adding the suffix ly to different word roots and write sentences that are commands, questions and statements. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.