Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and record how different word roots can be changed by the addition of the prefixes anti and auto for core and extension ability levels and the prefixes in and im for support ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add the prefixes anti and auto to word roots to build different words that can be used in sentences about whales.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors use dialogue to illustrate the actions and thoughts of story characters and narrate plot events. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.