Activities in this teaching pack include a template for core and extension ability levels to write a new scene for the story of Gangsta Granny using dialogue sentences to illustrate the relationships between different characters and a worksheet for support ability levels to select and record dialogue sentences to match scenes from a narrative story.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write dialogue sentences for a story to illustrate the relationships between different characters in a story about families.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors use vocabulary and dialogue to illustrate character relationships in a story about family life, identify the meanings and spellings of confusing words and use the perfect form of verbs to indicate timing. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.