Lesson Two – Semi-colons
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using semi-colons to link and punctuate independent clauses in example sentences written to match some different story genres.
The class can identify and describe the structure and content of narratives plots to match the style of adventure story writing to suggest what makes their features special and unique.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using semi-colons to link and punctuate independent clauses in example sentences written to match some different story genres
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe the structure and format of adventure story writing, a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to practise using semi-colons to link independent clauses in sentences written to match different story genres and a set of cards for support ability levels to match sentence clauses with semi-colons.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use semi-colons to link independent clauses in sentences written to match different story genres.
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.
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