Places Word Ladders

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise making lists of synonyms for different adjectives to use in sentences describing some of the special places that can be found in the world. The class explain how to combine words to make expanded noun phrases describing somewhere.

Forest Words
Select and order synonyms for powerful adjectives that can be used to describe different nouns that are connected to parts of a forest

Mountain Words
Select and order synonyms for powerful adjectives that can be used to describe different nouns that are connected to parts of a mountain

Desert Words
Select and order synonyms for powerful adjectives that can be used to describe different nouns that are connected to parts of a desert
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Homophones Matching
Explore the spelling and meaning of some different words that are homophones by matching and listing pairs of words with the same pronunciations
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Friction
Investigate, describe and test the effects of air and water resistance and friction on different objects and materials presenting results using graphs and tables
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Capacity Conversions
Explain and model how to convert between different units of measurement for capacity by comparing and matching capacities in litres and millilitres
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Story Conjunctions
Identify and model how to link clauses in sentences related to some of the special characters and events that feature in different stories