This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify, define and match a range of different words that have been written in the past tense using their correct irregular spellings.

The class can explain and model how to use the matched words in the past tense to describe the thoughts and actions of characters from different types of narrative stories.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, define and match a range of different words that have been written in the past tense using their correct irregular spellings

Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to play a game to identify and match different words written in the past tense using their correct irregular spellings and a set of cards for support ability levels to identify and match different words written in the past tense with their correct irregular spellings.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore different words written in the past tense using the correct irregular spellings to use when describing characters from a story.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to research and model different ways that authors describe and use characters in narrative stories, practise identifying words with irregular past tense spellings and write sentences to describe story characters using conjunctions. 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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