Key Stage Two : English : Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation : Sentence Extensions


This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using commas to add a range of relative clauses to different sentences extracted from classic works of fiction by significant authors. The class can identify how to use vocabulary to extend sentences adding more information and details about the subject of a sentence using the correct punctuation.

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This teaching pack includes four lessons to teach the class to practise using commas to add relative clauses to sentences extracted from classic works of fiction. There are activities for shared, independent and group learning.

This scheme of work for English is recommended for Years Five and Six in Key Stage Two although it could also be easily differentiated for children in other ages and classes to use.

Skills covered in this teaching pack include identifying the subject of a sentence, adding relative clauses to extend the understanding of a sentence subject and using commas to punctuate relative clauses.

Lesson One : Secret Garden

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.

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.
Teaching Resource Files
Lesson plan secret garden Text secret garden (colour, black and white, document) Activity changing sentences board (colour, black and white) Activity matching sentences support (colour, black and white) Presentation secret garden

Lesson Two : Five Children and It

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.

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.
Teaching Resource Files
Lesson plan five children and it Text five children and it (colour, black and white, document) Activity relative clauses (colour, black and white)
Activity matching sentences support (colour, black and white) Presentation five children and it

Lesson Three : Alice in Wonderland

Practise using relative clauses to change different sentences taken from a work of classic fiction by a significant author. The children can record how to use different relative clauses beginning with which, where, when, whose or that.

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.
Teaching Resource Files
Lesson plan Alice in Wonderland Text Alice in Wonderland (colour, black and white, document) Activity story sentences core, support (colour, black and white, document) Presentation Alice in Wonderland

Lesson Four : Black Beauty

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.

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.
Teaching Resource Files
Lesson plan Black Beauty Text Black Beauty (colour, black and white, document) Activity story sentences core, support (colour, black and white, document) Presentation Black Beauty

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You can preview all of the lessons from this scheme of work to see if they will match the needs of your class. If you have any questions about this English scheme of work for Key Stage Two then please contact us so that we can help.

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September 27, 2023

Good English planning useful for my year four class

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