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Lesson Three – Elves’ Tools
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using apostrophes for possession in sentences to describe some of the different tools that can be used by the elves in Santa’s workshop.
The class can explain how to correctly punctuate a range of sentences about workshop tools and equipment containing singular and plural nouns.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using apostrophes for possession in sentences to describe some of the different tools that can be used by the elves in Santa’s workshop
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to practise writing and punctuating sentences using apostrophes to indicate possession for singular nouns for support ability levels and plural nouns for core and extension ability levels.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use apostrophes for possession in sentences to describe tools used by the elves in Santa’s workshop.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write an explanation to describe how Santa Claus prepares for Christmas including using apostrophes to indicate possession in 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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