Lesson Five – Story Letter

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and compose a letter to record and describe the thoughts of a character about one of the main events in a narrative adventure story by a significant author.
The class can practise writing in the first person to indicate some of the main sequence of narrative events that occur in the story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and compose a letter to record and describe the thoughts of a character about one of the main events in a narrative adventure story by a significant author
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to compose and record a letter to describe the thoughts and feelings of a main character about one of the main events that have taken place in an adventure story read and discussed by the class.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a letter to describe the thoughts of a character about one of the main events in a narrative story.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and record ways of enriching a narrative story using descriptive vocabulary in expanded noun phrases. 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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