Unit A – Story Places

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary, practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to word roots and learn how to join sentences using conjunctions based on The Angel of Nitshill Road, Anne Fine.

Respond to stories with familiar settings to investigate story structure and descriptive vocabulary

Lesson One : Word Building

Practise adding the prefixes dis and mis to a selection of word roots to build a range of different words that can be used when writing a story set in a specific location

Lesson Two : Word Signals

Identify and record whether to use the determinants a or an before different nouns in sentences related to a specific story setting

Lesson Three : Sentence Links

Model how to use the conjunctions because, but or when to link sentence clauses about things that might happen in a story set in a school

Lesson Four : School Scenes

Create and perform short dramas to illustrate some of the things that might happen between friends in a school to match a story with a familiar setting

Lesson Five : Story Settings

Select and list special vocabulary words that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different narrative stories

  • Valentine Gifts

    Valentine Gifts

    Investigate and practise different techniques to shape and combine materials when producing models to make gifts to give to someone special for Valentine’s Day

  • Valentine Boxes

    Valentine Boxes

    Practise using nets of cube and cuboid shapes and a range of materials to make and decorate boxes to hold Valentine’s Day gifts for someone special

  • Flower Bouquet

    Flower Bouquet

    Produce a bouquet of paper flowers to present to someone special on Valentine’s Day by shaping and combining a range of different materials

  • Valentine Hearts

    Valentine Hearts

    Design and produce Valentine’s Day card designs using layers and combinations of different shapes and materials