Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of templates to select and record how to use and punctuate commas in example discussion sentences when adding different phrases and clauses to present viewpoints to argue for or against a school recycling project.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas in discussion sentences to argue for or against a school recycling project.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate opposing viewpoints as presented in the media about environmental issues, explore spellings of words with cial endings and practise punctuating sentences using commas. The class can outline arguments for and against building a wind turbine. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.