Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated sets of cards to select and group sets of words that are part of the same root family to use when describing characters in a traditional story by Hans Christian Anderson that has been read by the class.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the meaning of different words with a range of prefixes and suffixes that are part of the same root family.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to read and adapt a traditional tale changing characters and settings, investigate word families and use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.