This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and record how to compile lists of matching synonyms for different words that could be used in an advert to sell a house in the school’s neighbourhood.

The class can practise editing sentences from a house advert using the vocabulary they have collected to make it more persuasive and compel the reader to perform an action.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how to compile lists of matching synonyms for different words that could be used in an advert to sell a house in the school’s neighbourhood

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to compile lists of synonyms for different words that could be used to describe a type of house and a worksheet to compose sentences for an advert describing houses for sale using synonyms for different words.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compile lists of synonyms for different words that could be used in an advert to sell a house.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to compose and edit adverts using persuasive language to sell a range of different houses as estate agents, investigate the spellings and meanings of of words that are homophones and practise selecting powerful adjectives to use when writing expanded noun phrases. 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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