Lesson Four – Story Problem

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to compose a paragraph describing a problem that some of the characters might need to solve in a narrative story by Roald Dahl.
The class can practise extending some of their story sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials to add extra clauses to develop the narrative structure.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to compose a paragraph describing a problem that some of the characters might need to solve in a narrative story by Roald Dahl
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to choose some special vocabulary words to use when extending a range of example sentences based on a narrative story by Roald Dahl using conjunctions and fronted adverbials to add extra clauses.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose a paragraph describing a problem that the characters might need to solve in a narrative story by Roald Dahl.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore and record different ways of changing characters, settings and events in a story by a significant author, add the suffix ing to words with stressed final consonants and extend sentences using conjunctions and fronted adverbials. 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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