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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3D Shape Labels
Identify and record how to label models and illustrations of some different 3D shapes to indicate their special properties
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Adventure Plays
practise composing and performing play scripts using the correct structure and format to illustrate adventures to different locations
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Shakespeare Plays
Investigate the structure and format of different scenes extracted from plays by William Shakespeare to use for drama performances
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Greek Myths
Practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece