Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to identify silent letters that feature in different words and use them in example sentences to match a selection of story genres such as stories with fantasy settings, science fiction or mystery tales.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record some of the silent letters that can be used to form a range of different words.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing, investigate and use spellings of words with silent letters and learn how to use semi-colons to link independent clauses in sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.