Summer Life

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise selecting and using pairs of matching homophones in sentences to describe some of the special things that can happen in the summer season of the year.
The class can model how to write their own sentences with the incorrect homophones for a partner to edit to use the correct words with the matching meanings.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and using pairs of matching homophones in sentences to describe some of the special things that can happen in the summer season of the year
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets for support, core and extension ability levels to select the correct homophones with matching meanings to add to and complete example sentences about what can happen during the summer.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a range of homophones to describe different summer events and experiences.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify, match and record the different meanings and definitions of pairs of words that can be classed as homophones.. 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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