This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using relative clauses to extend sentences from a work of classic fiction. The class can select and change sentences from a text extract by adding their own relative clauses to add more information and description.

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Learning Objectives

Drawing inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. Using relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that.

Learning Outcomes

I can give reasons for the actions of a character in a story. I can insert a relative clause into a sentence using commas.

Black Beauty

Teaching sequence to help the children practise using relative clauses to extend sentences from a work of classic fiction by a significant author

Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

Shared reading text to help the children describe the structure and content of a work of classic fiction by a significant author

Story Sentences

Activity to help the children practise adding relative clauses to sentences taken from a work of classic fiction by a significant author

Black Beauty

Interactive activity to help the children practise using relative clauses to extend sentences from a work of classic fiction by a significant author

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise using relative clauses to extend sentences from a work of classic fiction

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