Lesson Two – Myth Sentences

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and model how to add a selection of relative clauses to modify nouns that feature in different sentences related to the narrative of a Greek myth.
The class can identify and explain how myths and legends are structured and formatted differently than other types of stories such as the appearance of heroes and monsters and the use of magic.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and model how to add a selection of relative clauses to modify nouns that feature in different sentences related to the narrative of a Greek myth
Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to practise completing relative clauses used to modify nouns in sentences related to a Greek myth for support ability levels and select and add relative clauses sentences from a myth for core and extension ability levels.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add relative clauses to modify nouns in sentences related to a Greek myth.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore the text features and characteristic structures of myths and legends, match words roots with the verb prefixes dis and mis and practise embedding relative clauses into sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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