Activities in this teaching pack include a template to write a selection of paragraphs for a detective story changing sentences from the first to the third person and a vocabulary word bank to select and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses to about what happened in a detective story written as one of the characters.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to convert a selection of paragraphs from a detective story from the first to the third person.

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.