Lesson Four – Story Letter
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to compose a letter that a character might write about one of the plot events in an adventure story read by the class.
The class can select and list questions that a character might ask about what happened in the story and suggest possible answers to use when composing their example letters.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to compose a letter that a character might write about one of the plot events in an adventure story read by the class
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to list questions that a character might ask about what happened in an adventure story and suggest possible answers and a template to compose a letter that a character might write about one of the events in a story read by the class.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a letter that a character might write about one of the events in a story read by the class.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and model how to use narrative structures employed by authors when telling adventure stories, identify and match definitions of words that are commonly confused with each other and practise extending sentences using commas. 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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