Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to identify and model how to use commas in sentences related to an adventure story to add lists for support ability levels and insert phrases for core and extension ability levels to describe the actions of the characters.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to insert different phrases and lists into sentences related to 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.