This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise adding extra information to sentences from a classic story by a significant author using relative clauses. Some children can be supported by getting them to match relative clauses to different sentences.

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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.

Secret Garden

Teaching sequence to help the children practise adding extra information to sentences from a classic story by a significant author using relative clauses

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Changing Sentences

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

Secret Garden

Interactive activity to help the children practise adding extra information to sentences from a classic story by a significant author using relative clauses

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise adding extra information to sentences from a classic story by a significant author using relative clauses

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