Lesson One – Word Suffixes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots to use when describing events that could happen in a detective story.
The class can explain how authors can plant clues and questions in the mind of a reader when writing a detective story about mysterious events.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and record how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes are added to word roots to use when describing events that could happen in a detective story
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and record how words can change their spelling and meaning when the suffix able has been added to word roots to use when describing some of the different events that might happen in a detective story.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how words change their spelling and meaning when suffixes have been added to different word roots.
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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