Lesson Two – Sentence Building

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise combining sets of nouns, adjectives and prepositions to compose expanded noun phrases that can be used to describe different parts of a house.
The class can suggest how to use persuasive language in a piece of text to compel the reader into an action such as when creating adverts to sell a range of different houses.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise combining sets of nouns, adjectives and prepositions to compose expanded noun phrases that can be used to describe different parts of a house
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and explain how an advert has been constructed using persuasive language to compel the reader to perform an action and a worksheet and a set of cards to identify and match nouns, adjectives and prepositions that can be used in expanded noun phrases to describe different parts of a house.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to combine nouns, adjectives and prepositions to compose expanded noun phrases to describe different parts of 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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