Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to practise adding the suffix ed to a range of different word roots with no spelling changes for support ability levels and with root spelling changes for core and extension ability levels to use when describing story settings.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add the suffix ed to a range of different word roots with stressed final syllables.

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.