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
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Space Race
Explore how the space race in the 1950s and 1960s heralded a number of technological, cultural and political changes and advancements in the world
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Moses
Explore and record the life and achievements of Moses from the Old Testament in the Christian Bible and his impact on the development of Christianity
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Number Thousands
Compare, order and sequence different sets of four digits numbers by using the place value of their numerical digits including counting in steps of thousands