This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using commas to embed a range of different phrases into sentences about characters that feature in the science fiction story of the Time Machine.

The class can explain techniques used by authors to describe characters and settings in a specific story genre to use when constructing their own example sentences.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using commas to embed a range of different phrases into sentences about characters that feature in the science fiction story of the Time Machine

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the format and structure of a science fiction story about time travel and a differentiated set of worksheets to practise using commas to embed phrases into sentences about characters from a science fiction story using lists, relative clauses and fronted adverbials.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use commas to embed phrases into sentences about characters from a science fiction story.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to select characters, settings and events to use when writing science fiction stories, identify words that contain the ible suffix and practise using commas and conjunctions to write 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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