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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Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
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Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties
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School Classrooms
Explain and record how to link pairs of sentence clauses about things that might happen in a school classroom using a range of matching conjunctions
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Animal Encyclopaedia
Design and produce a class encyclopaedia including entries and information about different classes of animals found in the world