Lesson Five – Story Puzzles
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader about what happened.
The class can list some of the text features that they need to include when writing a detective story to match the style and structure of the genre.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader about what happened
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to model how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader and a worksheet to review and suggest improvements to their writing modelled as a detective story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write an extra section to match the structure and format of a detective story to create puzzles in the mind of the reader.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate common narrative features and styles of mystery and thriller writing, learn spelling rules for adding the suffix able and practise using commas to write compound and complex sentences. 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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