This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to identify and build some different words by adding the suffix ly to a selection of word roots to describe what happened in a story about a giant fruit.

The class can practise using some of the words suffixed with ly to describe what happened to the characters in a story by Roald Dahl to illustrate their actions and thoughts.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and build some different words by adding the suffix ly to a selection of word roots to describe what happened in a story about a giant fruit

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record how to build different words by adding the suffix ly to a selection of word roots with no spelling changes for support ability levels and to words ending in the letters y and e for core and extension ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and build different words by adding the suffix ly to a selection of word roots to use when describing events and characters in a story by Roald Dahl.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write a narrative story based on a book by a significant author, build words by adding the suffix ly and extend sentences using 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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