Lesson Three – Brackets and Dashes
This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to add interrupting thoughts to example sentences about what can happen in a family by using brackets and dashes.
The class can identify and suggest reasons for the actions of characters in a story and how they might impact the plot development and outcomes of the narrative.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to add interrupting thoughts to example sentences about what can happen in a family by using brackets and dashes
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet for core and extension ability levels to practise adding interrupting thoughts to sentences about family life by using brackets and dashes and a set of cards for support ability levels to match how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to example sentences about what can happen in a family.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add interrupting thoughts to sentences about family life by using brackets and dashes.
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.
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