This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and record the correct near homophone to complete different sentences describing some houses that might be for sale in the school’s neighbourhood.

The class can identify examples of persuasive language that have been used in an advert by an estate agent to sell a house and suggest improvements to the vocabulary.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and record the correct near homophone to complete different sentences describing some houses that might be for sale in the school’s neighbourhood

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to correct, select and use some examples of near homophones to complete different sentences describing some of the houses that might be for sale as included in property adverts.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the correct near homophones to complete some different sentences describing different houses for sale.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to use persuasive language to write newspaper adverts and radio commercials to sell houses, explore and use spellings of words that are near homophones and practise 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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