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