Lesson Five – Story Settings

This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and list special vocabulary words that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different narrative stories.
The class can select and compose a range of matching sentences that might feature in a story containing the chosen story settings to match class reading.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and list special vocabulary words that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different narrative stories
Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to help select and use different conjunctions to extend sentences when writing about familiar settings that feature in different stories and a worksheet to compose sentences that could be used to describe familiar settings in a range of narrative stories.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary that could be used to describe familiar settings that feature in different stories.
This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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