Lesson Five – What Location

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special setting that could appear in a fiction story based on the work of Roald Dahl.
The class can explain and model how to compose paragraphs describing a mystery setting for the rest of the class to identify and describe why it is important to the story.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and record descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a special setting that could appear in a fiction story based on the work of Roald Dahl
Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to select descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a setting from a fiction story and a template write a description of a setting from a fiction story to illustrate its importance to the narrative.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore descriptive vocabulary words that can be used to describe a setting from a fiction story.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate narrative techniques used by authors to describe story settings, practise building words by adding the suffix ed to words with stressed final syllables and extend sentences using conjunctions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
-
Fraction Lengths, Masses and Capacities
Practise using division number skills to calculate and record the fractions of different measurements for length, mass and capacity
-
Story Changes
Explore different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant children’s author
-
Easter Viewpoints
Explore some of the main narrative events in the Easter story and suggest how different characters might have reacted to what happened to Jesus
-
Viking Longships
Select, combine and adjust different graphic shapes to create the design that could be used on a replica Viking longship sail