Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated sets of cards to select and match the written definitions of different words that are commonly confused with each other to use when composing example sentences about characters and plot events in an adventure story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the definitions of different words that are commonly confused with each other to investigate how they can use be used when writing a story.

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.