Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to identify the correct spelling and make lists of words with the suffixes able to ible to use when composing example newspaper headlines about mysteries events that might happen in the world.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to work with different spelling rules to add the suffixes able and ible to word roots to use in newspaper headlines.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the different ways that news stories about mysteries are reported and presented using journalistic writing, explore rules for adding the suffixes able and ible to word roots and practise using a colon to introduce a list in a sentence. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.