Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to select and and record what happens to the spelling and meaning of word roots when they have been changed by the addition of the prefix in for support ability levels and the prefixes in and im for core and extension ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore changes that can happen to the spelling and meaning of different word roots when adding the prefixes in and im.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to explore how authors describe and use characters in a story with a familiar setting, add the prefixes in and im to roots, match determinants to nouns and use conjunctions to link sentence clauses. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.