Lesson One – Word Sums

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise adding the prefixes inter and super to a range of different word roots to build vocabulary words for use in newspaper stories and reports.
The class can explain and model how to use some of the prefixed words to write newspaper headlines for different events that might have happened in the school.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise adding the prefixes inter and super to a range of different word roots to build vocabulary words for use in newspaper stories and reports
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards for support ability levels to match the prefixes inter and super to a range of different word roots and differentiated worksheets for core and extension ability levels to build a selection of words by recording how to add the prefixes inter and super to word roots.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add the prefixes inter and super to a range of different word roots to build vocabulary for use in newspapers.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and format of journalistic writing used in newspaper reports and stories about current events, practise building words by adding the prefixes inter and super to different word roots and write fact and opinion 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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