Activities in this teaching pack include sets of cards to practise writing and punctuating sentences using apostrophes to indicate possession to describe equipment used by Santa’s reindeer and select the names of different reindeer when composing their sentences using apostrophes for possession.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use apostrophes for possession in sentences to describe equipment used by Santa’s reindeer.

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.