Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to structure and format a discursive text outlining viewpoints for and against an issue related to solar power and a differentiated set of worksheets to select and record how to add lists, fronted adverbials and relative clauses to sentences about different types of energy production using commas..

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to separate phrases and clauses in example sentences about different forms of energy production.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a magazine article about an environmental issue, learn rules to spell words with cial and tial endings and use commas to separate phrases and clauses in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.