Activities in this teaching pack include differentiated worksheets to select synonyms for a verb taken from a Roman myth and order from weak to strong vocabulary for core and extension ability levels and sort a selection of verb synonyms for movement for support ability levels.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compare synonyms for different verbs to describe actions from a Roman myth.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate the structure and language of narrative stories written as myths, practise adding the suffix ly to word roots and extend sentences using conjunctions to express cause. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.