Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of cards to record how to build a range words by combining a selection of different roots and suffixes to match spelling rules to use when composing sentences about the actions and dialogue of characters in a narrative story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use spelling rules to identify word roots that have been changed by the addition of different suffixes.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise planning and composing a narrative story based on reading describing a personal issue or dilemma about school life, investigate how to add suffixes to word roots 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.