Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how to present arguments for or against an environmental issue in a discussion text and a set of differentiated worksheets to practise using commas to punctuate different slogans and catchphrases about some new recycling bins.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to punctuate different slogans and catchphrases about a range of environmental issues.

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.