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

  • Classic Fiction Extensions

    Classic Fiction Extensions

    Identify and record how to use relative clauses to extend sentences taken from a range of classic fiction stories by significant authors

  • Black Beauty

    Black Beauty

    Practise selecting and using a range of relative clauses to change different sentences taken from the work of classic fiction Black Beauty by a significant author

  • Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    Practise selecting and using a range of relative clauses to change different sentences taken from the work of classic fiction Alice in Wonderland by a significant author

  • Five Children and It

    Five Children and It

    Select and model how to add extra information and facts to different sentences from the classic story of the Five Children and It by using relative clauses