Key Stage Two : English : Vocabulary : Relative Clauses : Five Children and It


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to use relative clauses to extend sentences about characters that feature in a work of classic fiction by a significant author. The class can select different sentences from the text to change by adding a relative clause.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to use relative clauses to extend sentences about characters that feature in a work of classic fiction by a significant author

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.

Five Children and It

Teaching sequence to help the children use relative clauses to extend sentences about characters that feature in a work of classic fiction by a significant author

Five Children and It, E S Nesbit

Shared reading text to help the children identify and describe the sequence of events in a classic story by a significant author

Relative Clauses

Activity to help the children select vocabulary that can be used at the beginning of a relative clause embedded into a sentence taken from a classic story by a significant author

Matching Sentences (support)

Activity cards to help the children match and record example relative clauses to different sentences taken from a classic story by a significant author

Five Children and It

Interactive activity to help the children use relative clauses to extend sentences about characters that feature in 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 use relative clauses to extend sentences about characters that feature in a work of classic fiction by a significant author

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