This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and compose a range of complex sentences to use in a discussion text containing facts and opinions describing different school issues and rules.

The class can identify and model some of the sentence structures and vocabulary phrases that could be utilised when arguing a viewpoint about an issue.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and compose a range of complex sentences to use in a discussion text containing facts and opinions describing different school issues and rules

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to format and structure discursive writing to present viewpoints about pupils riding scooters to school and sets of cards to sort and write sentences with facts and opinion for use in a discussion text about an issue related to school rules.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose sentences for a discussion text using fact and opinion to describe different school issues and rules.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explain and model how to compose a range of discussion texts to debate and present arguments about issues that are important to life in a school. 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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